Word: wu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...born Orkache (pronounced Wu-er-kai-she as transliterated into Chinese) Dawlat in Beijing on Feb. 17, 1968, a native Uighur, in the midst of the Cultural Revolution, when an aging Mao Zedong fomented social unrest in the name of class struggle. A family portrait shows Wuer, age 1, holding up a copy of Mao's Little Red Book. Throughout the rigors of the period, his father remained a loyal member of the party who spent years translating the works of Marx, Lenin and Mao from Chinese into Uighur. When thousands of China's intellectuals were forced...
Premier Li and pro-democracy student leaders held a tense meeting in the Great Hall of the People yesterday that ended in failure after student activist Wu'er Kaixi collapsed as he shouted at the premier...
...scene in the Xinjiang Room of the Great Hall was unprecedented in Communist China with Wu'er, a 21-year-old education major at Beijing Normal University wearing hospital pajamas and running shoes, shouting down the premier...
...started talking about friend- ship," said a student who was at the meeting."Wu'er stood up and told him to stop playing gamesand get down to business...
...Impolite?" Wu'er said. "You've got a millionpeople on the streets and you're calling meimpolite...