Word: yang
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Thirty-four professors from the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), including Dean Joseph S. Nye, appealed to the Chinese government last week to release Yang Jianli, a KSG graduate who has been detained in China for five months...
...Yang, who was banned from China following his involvement in the 1989 pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square, was detained in Kunming on April 26 for using false identification...
...Yang holds a Ph.D. in political economy from Harvard and a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley...
...said that Yang was transformed after his experience with the Tiananmen Square protests into someone “completely dedicated” to his cause...
...home with her and Yang’s two children, said most people cannot understand why Yang felt he had to leave for China—including her seven-year-old son, Aaron...