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...serving snacks at party meetings. But suddenly faced with finding a lawyer, arranging prison visits and protecting her husband's rights, she began sharing tea and tales with the wives of other political prisoners in Hangzhou. One of them was an outspoken college student named Shan Chengfeng whose husband, Wu Yilong, had co-founded Wang's party. Shan's sharp pen had won her a national essay contest, and she had written much of the party's material. Unlikely allies, the two women took their cause public. Late last year they rounded up 28 signatories for an open letter urging...
...International Olympic Committee inspectors arrived in China to assess Beijing's bid to host the 2008 Olympics, Shan Chengfeng, the wife of jailed China Democracy Party founding member Wu Yilong, was sentenced without trial to two years of "reform-through-labor" in eastern Zhejiang province. The 25-year-old activist was one of 28 signatories to an open letter to the I.O.C. arguing that China's political repression violates the Olympic spirit and urging I.O.C. members to use their leverage to speed the release of prominent political prisoners. More than a month since her arrest in nearby Hangzhou, authorities...
Illingworth says he is meeting twice a month with a committee of administrators and two student representatives, Angela A. Wu '01 and Michael S. Roiff '01 (this year's vice president of the Pudding Theatricals...
GREAT BRAWL OF CHINA CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON SONY PICTURES CLASSICS The bid for grass-roots buzz resulted in screenings for the Wu-Tang Clan and various players for the Yankees and Jets, plus a successful push to nab Entertainment Weekly's coveted Oscar-preview cover...
Raymond H. Wu...