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EXPELLED. LI SHAOMIN, 44, American business professor convicted of spying for Taiwan; in a closed court in Beijing. Li was detained on Feb. 25; five other Chinese scholars with U.S. ties are in detention and await trial. Li's conviction and expulsion came a day after Beijing was awarded the 2008 Olympic Games...
...whose career in show business spanned six decades; in Jupiter, Florida. (See Eulogy) DIED. R.K. NARAYAN, 94, prolific novelist and author of short stories that characterized subcontinental village life; in the southern Indian city of Madras. Narayan was an early pioneer among Indian literati writing in English. CHARGED. LI SHAOMIN, 45, U.S. citizen and business professor who had been detained in China for three months, with spying for Taiwan; in Beijing. Li is one of five Chinese American citizens or residents, mostly academics, who have been detained in recent months by Beijing on espionage charges. CHARGED. ROBERT HANSSEN, former...
Chinese authorities have detained two American-based academics this year. University researcher Gao Zhan, right, a permanent U.S. resident whose son and husband are citizens, was arrested for espionage last week after being held for more than a month. Li Shaomin, a U.S. citizen and Hong Kong professor, was taken into custody while visiting the mainland last month...
Suddenly, it seems like open season on American academics in China. Only days after Beijing accused a detained U.S.-based scholar of espionage, word broke last Friday of yet another being held without charges, this time a U.S. citizen. Li Shaomin, a 44-year-old widely published professor of business and a naturalized American since 1995, left his wife and daughter at their home in Hong Kong to visit a friend across the border in the economic boomtown of Shenzhen. That was Feb. 25, and he never got there. His frantic wife, Liu Yingli, rang the U.S. consulate, which assured...