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...facing class-action suits from the thousands of slave laborers forced to work in their factories during the Nazi era, while Swiss banks that once swallowed Jewish assets have offered up $1 billion to Holocaust survivors. Former Bosnian leaders are facing international tribunals for crimes against humanity. And Jiang Zemin, his own human rights violations notwithstanding, has embarked this week on his first state visit to Japan, demanding written apologies from the Japanese government for its brutality in China during the 1930s and '40s-an apology that Japan has already issued to South Korea. But what's really behind this...

Author: By Dara Horn, | Title: Playing by the Rules | 12/3/1998 | See Source »

Last Wednesday, President Jiang Zemin arrived in Tokyo as the first Chinese head of state to visit Japan. Though the Japanese lavished dinner parties on the Chinese leader and rolled out the red carpet (literally), there was a snag in what should have been six days of photo opportunities: the absence of the simple word "sorry...

Author: By Jia-rui Chong, | Title: China and Japan: Is Remorse Enough? | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

During the past year, Harvard received Chinese President Jiang Zemin, established its first international office--located in Hong Kong--and sent its president to Asia twice...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fineberg Schedules Holiday Trip to Asia | 11/6/1998 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Adam M. Taub, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Beijing Group Gives 500 Books to Yenching | 11/5/1998 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Missing Pieces | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

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