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...Yang was detained 10 days after entering China on a borrowed passport—a charge which usually carries a sentence of five days’ detention and a $12 fine according to the Associated Press...
...Yang is president of the Boston-based Foundation for China in the 21st Century, and according to his wife, is on a Chinese government blacklist of 49 dissidents Chinese citizens who cannot return to their homeland...
Christina X. Fu had hoped to see her husband Yang Jianli, a recent Harvard doctoral graduate and Chinese dissident, who has been held by the Chinese government since April...
...Government A recently secured copy of Beijing's Chao Yang District internal memo titled On More Effectively Handling Events Involving Interviews with Foreign Journalists reveals striking similarities to another, equally officious government document, the Singapore Social Development Unit's pro-procreation pamphlet The Chemistry Guide. Both provide useful road maps through potentially fraught situations...
...training was only supposed to last three months but it stretched to nearly three years as relations between North and South improved. "The men were unhappy," recalls former trainer Yang Dong Su. "There was a lot of tension." On the morning of Aug. 23, 1971, the recruits snapped. One of them walked into the camp commander's office with a laundry basket, pulled out a crowbar and drove it through the commander's forehead. The revolt quickly turned into a massacre, with 17 guards gunned down or drowned trying to flee the island. Yang took a bullet through the neck...