Word: shanghai
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harry Wu was born Wu Hongda Feb. 8, 1937 in Shanghai. He attended the Beijing College of Geology and belonged to the young, vital intellectual movement of the '50s and spoke out against communism...
...halting words, Jiang sincerely thanked the president and professors who "educated my son and gave him technical lessons." He then poked fun at himself; Jiang only holds a bachelor's degree from Jiaotong University in Shanghai, while his son earned a doctorate. One of the draws of visiting Drexel and Philadelphia was the chance to see an old college classmate, who later taught Jiang's son at Drexel...
...Jiang Mian Heng, graduated from Drexel University in 1991 with a Ph.D in electrical engineering. Jiang himself has previously visited the United States. As mayor of Shanghai, Jiang toured sister city San Francisco and became fast friends with its mayor, Dianne Feinstein, who is now a Democratic Senator from California...
...rise up the party ranks received a major boost immediately following the Tiananmen Square massacre in June of 1989. In part for his bloodless handling of protests in Shanghai during the summer of that year, Deng chose Jiang as his successor...
Jiang had proven his mettle to conservatives during the beginning of the Tiananmen unrest by getting rid of the editor at an aggresively liberal newspaper in Shanghai...