Word: xiao
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...groups of Beijing-based legal scholars have sent petitions to China's National People's Congress, calling for an inquiry into Sun's case and arguing that the C.-and-R. system is illegal under at least two separate Chinese laws. "This case has become a national event," says Xiao Han, an author of one of the petitions. "The government has no choice but to address...
...weeks, China's leaders have told their people that, despite the SARS crisis, life should proceed almost as usual. To the chagrin of human rights watchers, a Liaoning provincial court is indeed conducting business as usual. On May 9, it convicted labor activists Yao Fuxin, 52, and Xiao Yunliang, 56, of "subverting the political power of the state." Yao received a seven-year jail term; Xiao, four years. Their one-day trial occurred five months ago, but the sentencing date was announced on May 6, preventing their Beijing-based lawyer, Mo Shaoping, from attending, as Liaoning is now quarantining visitors...
...activists' main offense? Last spring, Yao and Xiao led some 30,000 laid-off Liaoning factory workers in one of the largest labor demonstrations in five decades of communist rule. Included in the indictment were charges that Yao and Xiao listened to the Voice of America and Radio France International, and discussed their ideas with foreign journalists. They were also accused of forming a chapter of the banned China Democracy Party, a charge they deny. "We'll appeal, of course," says lawyer Mo. "But without significant international pressure, the chances of winning look awfully small." Even in these strange days...
...Currier House, Jessica L. Berenbeim, Jonathan W.E. Darman, Ceridwen Dovey, Nicholas H. Horbaczewski, Jennifer L. Nelson and David Y. Xiao...
...dish comes garnished with black- and white-cat sculptures?carved out of beets and turnips?in honor of Deng's famous economic axiom: It doesn't matter if the cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice.) The culinary allusions continue with the dessert offerings: yuan xiao, rice-paste dumplings stuffed with peanuts and black sesame, are listed as Chiang Kai-shek's balls. Elegance is combined with camp: an antique telephone on a lounge table is wired to play a recording of Mao's voice. The house wine, a French Bordeaux carrying the Red Capital label...