Word: wuer
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...Harvard has sort of become the center of theChinese dissident community," Sullivan said. Hesaid he believes the article is striking againstleaders of the pro-democracy movement. Studentleader Wuer Kaixi was a visting undergraduate atHarvard last year, and dissident journalist LiuBinyan spent time here as a Nieman Fellow...
...thousands of Chinese citizens, the massacre in Tiananmen Square marked a personal turning point, irrevocably changing their lives and forcing them to make choices they had never had to contemplate. That was true for student leaders like Wuer Kaixi, who headed Beijing's banned independent union of students. It was also true for intellectuals like Zhou Duo, who spent more than ten months in jail before being released three weeks ago, and for officials like Xu Jiatun, who supported conciliation with the protesters and mysteriously turned up in California this month for an extended stay in the U.S. Their stories...
With his handsome face and suave demeanor, Wuer Kaixi was the obvious choice as poster boy of the overseas democracy movement after he escaped from the mainland nearly a year ago. Since then, however, the young dissident has lost some of his hero's aura, and his rumored peccadilloes -- spending dissident funds on a lavish lobster dinner, faking illness during press conferences to avoid tough questions, and hyperinflating the number of students killed last year -- have been well chronicled in the press. But he is the wiser for it. "It was hard, but that's what press freedom...
...Though Wuer enrolled at Harvard last fall, he dropped out in February, in part to focus full time on his role as vice president of the Paris-based Federation for Democracy in China. He had hoped to join the Goddess of Democracy and take part in broadcasting pro-democracy messages into China from nearby international waters. But fearing for Wuer's safety, the project's organizers balked, and now that the ship has been sequestered by anxious authorities in Taiwan, they plan to sell...
...Wuer remains resolutely optimistic about his country's future. "Events in Europe and in the Soviet Union have proved that when the people are determined, the government must give in," he says. But he recognizes that in the short run, the outlook is bleak. Recently, Wuer received unconfirmed reports that his father, a Communist Party member, had been placed under house arrest in Beijing...