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Chinese university presidents participating are Chen Jia'er of Peking University, Jiang Shusheng of Nanjing University, Pan Yunhe of Zhejiang University, Wang Dazhong of Tsinghua University, Wang Shenghong of Fudan University, Xie Shengwu of Shanghai Jiaotong, Xu Tongmo of Xian Jiaotong...
...Marxism-Leninism cracks under the weight of the 20th century, the pope of Marxism is no longer a man controlling a monopoly. China's rickety economy and its opaque, chilly leaders have left most Chinese looking for something, someone, to believe in. "People have lost their beliefs," explains Xu Haoyuan, a U.S.-trained Beijing psychiatrist. "They do not know what will happen to them the next day, the next year. They could lose their job, their business. They wonder what will happen to the country...
...government-certified Catholics--including Bishop Jin of Shanghai--must forswear allegiance to the Roman Pontiff. Those who refuse must worship underground, ministered to by fugitive priests. Beijing has little patience with those who say the Kingdom of Heaven has precedence over the rulers of the Middle Kingdom. Peter Xu Yongze, an underground Protestant minister, has been arrested three times for suggesting that God might be more enduring than the state. (His other transgressions include pushing a kind of Christianity that requires new converts to weep for three straight days as a way to cleanse themselves...
While Vogel praised Zhu as a "very effective communicator," he said that his equivocal responses on human rights concerns, including the recent sentencing of political dissident Xu Wenli, are indicative of internal political pressure...
While Vogel praised Zhu as a "very effective communicator," he said that his equivocal responses on human rights concerns, including the recent sentencing of political dissident Xu Wenli, are indicative of internal political pressure...