Word: zhu
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...right here lying down next to me with the tube running into his arm," she says, pointing to the kang, a traditional brick sleeping platform found in most farmers' homes in this part of northeastern China. Yang and other family members insist that then 21-year-old Zhu Yanqiang couldn't even get to the toilet without help, much less sneak out to join in the brutal robbery-murder that took place some 40 km from the family's two-room farmhouse in the windswept hills outside the town of Chengde. Zhu, who sold vegetables in a nearby market...
...Zhu and three friends from his village of Zhuangtouying were convicted in 1995 of murdering a taxi driver-convictions obtained in large part on the basis of their confessions, which all four men later said they were tortured into fabricating. Citing numerous problems with the trial-one higher court found no fewer than 28 inconsistencies in the original court's conduct-the case was appealed all the way to the Supreme People's Court in Beijing, which recommended a retrial, as did several lower courts. In all, the case has been retried five times. Yet all four men remain...
...academic who is advising the prisoners' families, says that the treatment received by Zhu and his co-defendants was typical. "The same judges are not supposed to try the same case twice, but in this case they tried the case three times," he says. Xu says there were many other errors. According to documents lodged by the Chengde People's Procurate, the government alleged four men flagged down a taxi at the Chengde railway station on the night of the murder. After one asked the driver to stop so that he could relieve himself, all four attacked him with knives...
...haven’t been paying that much attention to the media coverage but I didn’t really see anything that I thought was particularly offensive or wrong, but I’m a very difficult person to offend,” said Weichen Zhu ‘07, a subscriber to the AAA e-mail list. “I can see more people are more sensitive to this issue than I am.” —Staff writer Doris A. Hernandez can be reached at dahernan@fas.harvard.edu...
...success is evident in Treasures of the Forbidden City (Viking; 262 pages; $75); his monumental painting of a deer-hunting party is one of only 100 art objects chosen for this book from more than 910,000 items in Peking's Palace Museum. The selection, compiled and annotated by Zhu Jiajin and a team of assistants and photographed by Hu Chui, embraces every notable Chinese art, from ancient bronzes to 19th century silk embroidery...