Word: zheng
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China's "Me generation" is less hostile to the communist regime than indifferent to it. "The government is all around us, but we don't pay attention," says Nie Zheng, 23, a Beijing artist and photographer. That means forfeiting job security and welfare benefits that traditionally bound even artists to the socialist system. But Nie earns enough from free-lance work to pay for Japanese cameras, CDs and designer sunglasses. The parents of Pang Rui, 18, want him to have security as a teacher or a doctor. But the university-bound student from Xian demurs: "I want to be free...
...Zheng, Staff Writer Pennsylvania 30 Harvard...
Evidence that cannibalism was not only practiced but condoned and even encouraged by some Communist Party officials emerged last week with the arrival in the U.S. of Zheng Yi, a dissident novelist who has been on Beijing's most wanted list since the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. Zheng, now 45, spent three years hiding in China before escaping to Hong Kong nine months ago. On the run as a fugitive, he managed to recover a number of the secret government reports that he had collected over the years. He used them to document two books, which he and his wife...
...documents reveal that cannibalism was widely practiced in the late '60s in the Guangxi Autonomous Region in southern China. Acting without the sanction of national party authorities, the documents reveal, several party leaders in Guangxi incited followers to kill "class enemies" and then eat their flesh in public ceremonies. Zheng also conducted his own extensive investigation into the reports of cannibalism. He says he interviewed relatives of victims and spoke with dozens of people who confessed to having eaten human flesh. He insists that his case is persuasive...
There is no evidence that Mao Zedong knew cannibalism was being practiced during the Cultural Revolution. When Premier Zhou Enlai heard about the crimes in Guangxi, he ordered party officials to put a stop to them. Nonetheless, according to Zheng, amid the anarchy of the times cannibalism apparently persisted in Guangxi. "I believe Zheng's story," says Perry Link, a professor of Chinese at Princeton. "He's a writer of integrity, and the rich detail has the ring of authenticity." Chinese officials now disclaim any knowledge of the practice. Said a Public Security official in Beijing: "I've never heard...