Word: zhang
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...small child, Betty Zhang watched zealous Red Guards beat her mother. At 16 she put up posters on Beijing's Democracy Wall and organized demonstrations in her home village. At 22 she was locked up in a Chinese gulag, judged without trial to be a counter-revolutionary subversive. For months she was confined to a dank room the size of a bed, spending her days in solitary silence, enduring torture with an electric prod and the painful, gratuitous removal of bone marrow from her spine. Released in March 1990 after more than six years in prison, Zhang was denied...
CompuNet has been open for business only six months but already has 2,000 paying customers. "Chinese youth can accept this quickly," says CompuNet co-founder Zhang Shuxin. "You just need a good way to introduce it." Zhang, a 33-year-old entrepreneur, caught the online bug while touring America in 1994, and has picked up a few high-caffeine marketing techniques. In January she opened the Cybercafe, a night spot in the lobby of the Beijing Concert Hall where both the wired and the wannabes gather to exchange E-mail and breathe the Internet's libertarian...
...Zhang takes pains to weed overtly political speech from CompuNet's bulletin boards. But information, as they say on the Net, wants to be free, and it's not clear how much free expression the Communist Party will tolerate. The government has already outlawed the online transmission of pornography and state secrets, and in February it required all Internet users to register with the police. The Chinese people may be only 100 meters from the information highway, but those last 100 meters could be the trickiest...
...faithful picture of this different life is presented in the latest movie by the controversial Chinese director Zhang Yimou, To Live. It portrays a peasant who lives through the Sino-Japanese war, the civil war, the Cultural Revolutions and social reforms of the late 1970's. Time changes, but one thing remains unchanged for him: he still has to struggle to find a way "to live." In today's China, there are 800,000,000 peasants in a situation just like his or maybe worse. Although the economy is booming, the cultural elites still do not make up a substantial...
...Shanghai Triad" is the work of Zhang Yimou, a so-called "fifth-generation" mainland Chinese director...