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...Chinese public has long been prone to worship leaders who appear even infinitesimally different from dictators. Take, for example, the public's veneration of Premier Zhou Enlai toward the end of the Cultural Revolution. That reverence had much more to do with disillusionment with Mao than evidence that Zhou was truly another kind of leader. As the French politician L?on Blum once said, "I believe it because I hope for it." The Chinese public might mistake benevolence from their ruler for democratic values and might confuse administrative reforms with real political reforms?but the leadership will...
...Times newspaper after it ran an article criticizing China's congress. The department also forbade coverage of other sensitive topics, including Jiang Yanyong, the doctor who exposed the government's cover-up of the SARS epidemic; separatist movements in Tibet and Xinjiang; the financial scandal swirling around Shanghai tycoon Zhou Zhengyi, and avian flu, which has broken out twice in China in the past five years and can kill humans...
...Zhou Zhengyi 2002's 11th richest mainlander, according to Forbes magazine, Zhou was the first in Shanghai to own a Ferrari. He and wife Mao Yuping stand accused of loan and stock fraud and tax evasion...
Shanghai real estate developer Zhou Zhengyi last week became the latest casualty in what appears to be an ongoing government crackdown on the dubious business practices of China's richest and flashiest. Here's the body count...
...housing office three weeks ago, I was informed there was little chance to stay in University housing during the summer, therefore I didn’t expect anything from the college and have tried very hard to find a summer sublet before reading period,” Zhou said...