Word: yang
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...rather passive and superficial in the sense that terrorists who want to enter a country will do so at any cost, but people with good intentions, such as businessmen who want to invest there, will be thwarted and will turn to and benefit places that inhibit them less. Lu Yang, SINGAPORE...
...girl, promised a good job in a remote village, finds herself abandoned and sold into marriage. Can she escape, or somehow take revenge? The woman-in-chains story has been told countless times; the twist here is that it's a parable of inequities in rural China. Director Li Yang says the Chinese censors cut his film in more than 20 places, but what's left is still strong meat for a movie from the People's Republic. As the captive, pretty Lu Huang gives a bold, nuanced performance in a film whose last - potent, if predictable - earned a thunderclap...
Yang’s lawyer, Mo Shaoping, alleged in 2003 that Yang had been kept in solitary confinement, barred from exercise, denied access to reading materials, and kept handcuffed until his hands were “bloody and infected...
...December 2004, Yang asked the Chinese government for medical parole, saying he had suffered a stroke that July...
Zeckhauser, who has not been able to communicate with his former student in the past five years, said that it was unlikely that Yang would relent in his fight for a democratic China...