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...sixth floor of a high-rise apartment building lives a veteran of the opaque, unforgiving world of Chinese statecraft. Bao Tong was once a top aide to Zhao Ziyang, a former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party. Now he lives under virtual house arrest, his every move observed, every visitor screened by a handful of guards, every conversation presumably monitored. The Communist Party would clearly like him to fade into oblivion, to live out the rest of his days caring for his goldfish and taking walks in the park. But Bao Tong has no intention of going quietly...
Police also questioned Bao about Charter 08. But his association with Zhao Ziyang offers him a degree of protection. "It's because Zhao still has a big following within the Party," says Bequelin. A picture of Zhao, who died in 2005, rests high on a bookshelf in a place of reverence in Bao's home. Zhao was deposed in May 1989, just before the Tiananmen crackdown, for sympathizing with the student demonstrators. Bao was arrested and spent seven years in prison for "revealing state secrets" and "counterrevolutionary propagandizing." Rather than silencing him, Bao's prison term convinced...
...Tong, a former assistant to purged Communist Party Secretary Zhao Ziyang and one of the charter's signers, acknowledged that it backed western values, but said that China had relied on similar ideas for reform in the past. "If studying the West is illegal, then we should arrest the people talking about the market economy, because that comes from the West," he says. "We should arrest the Communist Party, because political parties come from the West...
More than 500 people joined Pu in signing the document. Bao Tong, a deputy to Communist Party Secretary Zhao Ziyang, who was purged from the government for his support of the 1989 pro-democracy protesters, is the most prominent former official on the list. It also includes activists such as Liu Xiaobo and Ding Zilin, who co-founded the Tiananmen Mothers group after her teenage son was killed in the 1989 crackdown. Several prominent lawyers and writers who are actively working and publishing also signed, giving Charter 08 more clout than it would carry if it were the work...
...Beijing-based artist Zhao Gang isn't surprised. "Three years ago the prices started going higher and higher," says Zhao. "Last year the price was pushed way too high, and it's got to come down." In 2006, a collection of dreamlike portraits and landscapes by Zhang brought in just over $24 million - more than British art phenom Damien Hirst made in all of 2006. At Sotheby's Oct. 4 auction, the highest selling painting was Zhang Xiaogang's "Bloodline: Big Family No. 1," which sold for just under $3 million. In May, at rival auction house Christie...