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...this time were the death of Deng's younger brother, driven to suicide by Red Guards, and the crippling of their son Deng Pufang. A promising student of physics at Peking University, Pufang was hounded by radicals until he fell--or was pushed--from a fourth-story window. His spine was fractured, leaving him a paraplegic...
...eldest son of the late paramount leader, Deng Pufang, 51, has experienced the tumult that came with his pedigree. During the Cultural Revolution, fanatical Red Guards either pushed him or made him fall from a four-story building. The fall broke his spine and paralyzed him from the waist down. But after his father made his third comeback, in 1978, the paraplegic Pufang used his connections to create the Chinese Federation for the Disabled, which is now a multimillion-dollar charity...
Although it was meant for only one individual, it sent shivers down the spine of anyone watching his face...
...Chinese gulag, judged without trial to be a counter-revolutionary subversive. For months she was confined to a dank room the size of a bed, spending her days in solitary silence, enduring torture with an electric prod and the painful, gratuitous removal of bone marrow from her spine. Released in March 1990 after more than six years in prison, Zhang was denied the right to marry and, when she became pregnant, was ordered to have an abortion. Facing a future where the child she bore in secrecy would never have any rights, Zhang, with her lover and her daughter, managed...
...Queen of the Indies. Her crisp, dark beauty radiates the easy breeding of old-Hollywood royalty. Her wide, playful mouth suggests the young Katharine Hepburn; its I-know-I've-got-it look can be read as poise or derision. Waif-thin, Posey must have a Slinky for a spine; her walk is a loosey-goosey dance, as if house music were playing nonstop in her head. The aura is of a Park Avenue deb who gets her kicks downtown...