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...Wu visited Harvard in February 1995, when he gave an address at the Kennedy School as part of the Seventh Annual Harvard Asian American Intercollegiate Conference. The visit was sponsored by the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations and the Asian American Association...
...interview with Pamela Burdman of the San Francisco Chronicle, Wu summarized his main goal--to make laogai "an English word...
...Harry Wu was born Wu Hongda Feb. 8, 1937 in Shanghai. He attended the Beijing College of Geology and belonged to the young, vital intellectual movement of the '50s and spoke out against communism...
...Wu was branded as a "counterrevolutionary rightist" by the government because of his criticism of the 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary. He was sentenced to China's laogai...
After enduring what Wu says is comparable to the tortures of Nazi concentration camps for' years, he was freed with Deng Xioping's rise to power...