Word: zhang
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Desperate times demand desperate measures, however, and a few adventurers in Shenyang are forging reforms, even some that may be technically illegal. In many cases, the government looks the other way or even endorses such improvised solutions. What Zhang Hongwei is doing at the state-owned Jinbei minivan factory would hardly shock a Guangdong businessman, but his ways are considered dangerously radical here...
...Zhang is in another kind of limbo. Still on China's list of wanted criminals, given only temporary sanctuary in the British colony, she has been forced to change her name and stay mostly in hiding, though now and again she mingles in street marches calling for the release of China's democracy activists. She is by no means free, even in Hong Kong. "The Chinese government knows everything I do," says Zhang. "My family back home has been warned several times that I must end my involvement in the democracy movement here." Soon after her escape, she applied...
Luckily, that shouldn't happen. One day soon a government official or diplomat is expected to arrive with a visa, a plane ticket, some cash, to drive Zhang and her family to the airport and put them on a plane to freedom. Sources tell TIME that over the next few months more than 40 Chinese dissidents and their families who have languished hidden in Hong Kong with Zhang will at last be granted asylum in the West and secretly flown out of the territory. These departures will mark the end of the legendary "Yellowbird" underground railroad set up to rescue...
...finest hours. Millions of dollars, raised for the protesters before the massacre, were channeled into a rescue effort that the press dubbed Yellowbird and that engineered more than 300 escapes. While well-known figures like Olympic swimmer Yang Yang were whisked away to asylum, less famous fugitives like Zhang were stuck in Hong Kong...
Beijing may raise a ruckus against Western countries that take in Zhang and the others, but privately the government may also be relieved. Kenneth Chow, a Hong Kong lawyer on Beijing's handpicked advisory committee, says the dissidents would probably be warned to toe the line. If they don't, "you either arrest them or let them wander about and create damage. You don't want to do either, so the best way is someone else's taking them...