Word: zhou
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Three days later, Zhou went into hiding after he learned that the innovative Stone Corp., the computer firm he had worked for as a policy planner, had become the target of a witch-hunt. Its president, Wan Runnan, now a leading dissident in exile in Paris, had been close to then party chief Zhao Ziyang and an ardent supporter of the students...
...Tiananmen Square marked a personal turning point, irrevocably changing their lives and forcing them to make choices they had never had to contemplate. That was true for student leaders like Wuer Kaixi, who headed Beijing's banned independent union of students. It was also true for intellectuals like Zhou Duo, who spent more than ten months in jail before being released three weeks ago, and for officials like Xu Jiatun, who supported conciliation with the protesters and mysteriously turned up in California this month for an extended stay in the U.S. Their stories...
When sociologist Zhou Duo heard that the tanks were rumbling toward Tiananmen Square, where he had been on a hunger strike to show solidarity with the students, his first thought was to wave a white flag. But he dismissed the idea as ignoble. Instead, Zhou, 43, and popular singer Hou Dejian approached the oncoming soldiers and negotiated an agreement that allowed the demonstrators to withdraw peacefully...
...Zhou made his way to the coastal city of Yantai, where he stayed at a Stone guesthouse for three weeks before police caught him. He was detained in a hostel in the Beijing area, where, except for a three-day period of solitary confinement, he was treated relatively well. Zhou was never formally charged or tried. In December he was told he would be released shortly, but it was another five months before he, along with 210 others, gained his freedom...