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Word: wu (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Portrait of a Hooligan | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: One Million Chinese Demand Deng Resign | 5/19/1989 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: One Million Chinese Demand Deng Resign | 5/19/1989 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: One Million Chinese Demand Deng Resign | 5/19/1989 | See Source »

...Impolite?" Wu'er said. "You've got a millionpeople on the streets and you're calling meimpolite...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: One Million Chinese Demand Deng Resign | 5/19/1989 | See Source »

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