Word: xiao
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reach of the Chinese police, millions of his acolytes are running scared. Nobody dares go to the parks to exercise anymore. Many Falun Gong members have temporarily left home, and others are waiting for a knock on the door. "My mother was detained for 44 hours," says Sophie Xiao, a Beijing-born investment analyst now living in Hong Kong. "I was very worried. She is stubborn and wouldn't sign the letter of confession. She had to go to two police stations for questioning." Her mother is also a Communist Party member, which singled her out for special treatment...
...instance, an organization not of militant students but of housewives, retirees and administrators. Practitioners make Falun Gong sound like a sort of Buddhism Lite with quaintly named breathing exercises and a clean-scrubbed ethic that disapproves of smoking, drinking and the crass materialism of today's China. Sophie Xiao has been practicing Falun Gong for two years and says it has given her "answers to things I had been looking for all my life. I smile all the time, have no trouble in my life anymore...
...Xiao, 32, had a tough, if typical upbringing in China during the mania of the Cultural Revolution, which lasted from 1966 to 1976. Her father was driven "mentally crazy" after he was denounced at work as disloyal to Mao, and at home he expressed his anger by beating Xiao and her mother...
...Xiao said that the increase in communication options among national and international protest groups helps to facilitate change. He said the Internet provides a way to inform Chinese people about democracy...
...Xiao said reaching out to the people would not address the problem directly. The heart of the anti-democratic movement lies in the communist leadership, he said...