Word: zemin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bequest comes a year and three days after Chinese President Jiang Zemin visited Harvard. During his visit he announced the donation of Twenty-Four Histories, a classic work on Chinese history that was newly-published with comments by Mao Zedong, to the library...
...openness during the Clinton visit in June has fallen silent. Surveillance of dissidents has been increased, and in September police detained activists in four provinces for trying to legally register the China Democratic Party, which would have been the country's first opposition political group. Last week President Jiang Zemin issued a call to improve Communist Party control at the village level. This was a far cry from the village elections China holds, sometimes hinting that they are the first step toward democracy...
...says, while others divert business loans to their own accounts and then walk away from the repayments. "It goes right to the top. The local party secretary's office was so expensively decorated--they say it cost $200 per square meter--that it was better than President Jiang Zemin's office. So when Jiang came for a visit, they had to arrange a meeting in a hotel instead...
...honorary degree received by the other--these elements of the two leaders' visits made me see the two men as something much larger than either of them actually were. Instead of two political figures, one a freedom fighter and the other fighting freedom, Nelson Mandela and Jiang Zemin became the avatars of Good and Evil. To the aspiring future leaders in the audience, it was as if some higher power had sought out our student body, telling us in a biblical voice: "I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse: Choose life, so that you and your...
...course, the parallels were not perfect. We are all aware that Nelson Mandela is not Mother Theresa and Jiang Zemin no Pol Pot. But the effect was nonetheless achieved. We who witnessed both Mandela and Jiang pass through our campus have been forced to ask ourselves: Which will we choose, the blessing or the curse...