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...example is Jin Ping Mei (The Golden Lotus), a highly erotic literary classic from the Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1368-1644). Mao would let it be seen only by party officials of ministerial rank or higher. Wei Junyi, head of the People's Literature Press, prepared an expurgated edition for somewhat wider distribution, put it off during the campaign against spiritual pollution, and finally let it be printed in 1985 for distribution to writers and scholars, who snapped up 10,000 copies immediately at $6.65 per copy...
...that a self-described "nationalist" reporter who once worked for Hong Kong's pro-Beijing daily Wen Wei Po and a sociologist who often appeared on Chinese television to promote government policy are being detained for anti-Chinese activities? According to Lau, the 55-year-old reporter was picked up by Chinese security personnel on April 22 while in Guangzhou to collect a top-secret manuscript by a friend of Zhao Ziyang, the popular ex-Premier purged for opposing the Tiananmen crackdown, who died under house arrest in January. Although the manuscript's exact contents are not clear, a previous...
Watters said that he had received permission to film the show from the play’s producer, Xin Wei Ngiam ’07. But Ngiam said yesterday that “there was no formal permission ever given...
...have felt that Asians have been the forgotten minority in college admissions and in the business world,” said Benjamin D. Wei ’08 at the panel. Wei is the educational-political co-chair of the Asian American Association (AAA), which sponsored the panel...
...realm of college admissions, Asian Americans usually are not given any special considerations, Wei said. He added that common explanations include references to the group’s high academic achievement and its overrepresentation. Asians are just 3.5 percent of the U.S. population, according to the U.S. 2000 census...