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  • Beijing spring Aug. 2006, Issue 159
     

    Brief of No.159:

    A fact that has got universal attention among the observers that are concerned about the social political problem of China is that many high officers and officials of the CCP army and local governments have recently fallen. Famous among them are Lieutenant General Wang Shouye, Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, who was condemned the death penalty with stay of execution, Liu Zhihua, Deputy Mayor of Beijing who was removed from office in a short time for "corrupted life", and the Deputy Governor of Anhui Province He Minxu and the Chief Procurator of Tianjin Li Baojin......

    Table of Contents
    Words from the Editor in Chief
    03. / Hu Ping ...... Soft power and despotism

    Words from the President
    04. / Wang Dan ...... My words about the Cultural Revolution

    Cover Topic: The fall of high officials and black-curtain politics
    06. / Gong Yue ......Perspective of the behind stories of the fall of the CCP high officials
    09. / Ziya ......The Deputy Commander in Chief of the Navy who was condemned the death penalty with stay of execution
    10. / Zhong Yangshe ......The Deputy Mayer of Beijing Liu Zhihua was removed from office for "corruption"
    11. / Ji Yuanda ......The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the CCP investigated the Deputy Governor of Anhui Province He Minxu and Tian Weiqian
    12. / Yazi ...... The new earthquake in the political circle of Tianjin

    Chinese Political Situation
    13. / Hu Shaojiang ...... Analyzing the "Reaction to Emergent Incidents Act"
    15. / Qiao Xinsheng (Wuhan) ......What is the administrative monopoly of China?
    18. / Liang Jing (Beijing) ......The mess of totalitarianism and the storm of regulation and control

    Divine Land of China
    20. / Yang Yinbo (Chongqing) ......Investigation on the Zhu Wanquan and Wang Guangming Case
    23. / Zhao Jin (Hebei) ......Rain from sky, tears of the farmers
    25. / Guo Yongfeng (Shenzhen) ...... The mine disasters of Shanxi Province and the one party despotism
    26. / Lu Wen (Jiangsu) ...... General Wang who loves cash
    Theoretical Probe
    28. / Liu Xiaobo (Beijing) ......The enigma in the death of Gorky
    38. / Lu Gengsong (Shandong) ......Department of public security or private security
    45. / Shao Jiang (UK) ......The relationship between Taiwan and Mainland China and the issues

    Study on the Cultural Revolution
    49. / Chen Xiaoya (Beijing) ......The relationship of Chen Boda with Mao Zedong and Lin Biao
    57. / Zhang Heci (Australian) ......Some discussion about the People's Cultural Revolution
    59. / Chen Zijin ......Seminar of the 40th Anniversary of the Cultural Revolution

    Discussion Group of Culture
    61. / Zhang Yaojie ...... The artistic reality of "White Dear Plateau"
    64. / Yuner ...... Discussion from Mr. Lu Xun's defense for mercilessness
    72. / Huanghe Qing (Spain) ...... "The Silent Don" and Liu Binyan

    Historical Witness
    78. / Xu Liangying (Beijing) ...... The Mr. Shu Xingbei I know
    86. / Li Hong (Zhejiang) ...... Thinking of Zhang Shengkai from Zhang Jingjiang

    Wall of Democracy
    88. / Hu Ping ...... The statement of only one of the parties
    92. / Fan Baihua (Jiangsu) ...... Zhang Weiying - Lang Xanping - Gong Xiantian

    Reading
    96. / Shu Chong ...... How authentic is the "Dairy of Red Guard"?

    Garden of Literature & Art
    99. / Ma Yunlong (Henan) ...... A draft poem from prison (continued)
    100. /Quanlin ...... Common servant of the people
    100. / Lin Quan ...... Hiding behind the red flag of the party

    Brief News
    101. / Zhang Xiuhong ...... The granting ceremony of the Wan Renjie Press Award
    103. Brief News

    Readers, writers and editors
    106. Selected letters from readers

     


    Members of Beijing Spring's Advisory Board

    Fang Lizhi, professor of physics at University of Arizona. As the former vice president of Chinese University of Science and Technology, he inspired the 1989's Chinese Democracy movement and then was forced to seek refuge in the American Embassy for about a year after the June 4 crackdown.

    Guo Luoji, a leading liberal theoretician who was driven out of Beijing by Former Chairman Deng Xiaoping because of his political opinion. In 1992, he sued the Chinese government for human rights abuses in a Federal Court of law. Now he is a visiting scholar at Harvard University.

    Smarlo Ma Smarlo Ma is pen name of Mr. Yi Ma. Joining the CommunistParty of China in 1937, he became Director of the Library of the Anti-Japanese Military and Political College in Yan-an in 1938. He formally left the Party in 1943. as a well known expert on the history of the Communist party of china, he has often been invited to present papers in international conferences of Asian specialists. He has published mora than 20 books.

    Perry Link, professor of East Asian Studies at Princeton University. He specializes in 20th-century Chinese literature and is very concerned with human rights condition in Mainland China.

    Liu Qing, Chairman of the Executive Committee of Human Rights in China. As a democracy promoter and a close ally of Wei Jingsheng, he had been jailed by Chinese government for almost ten years.

    Andrew Nathan, professor of Political Science and Director of East Asian Institute at Columbia University. His teaching and research interests include Chinese politics and foreign policy, the comparative study of political participation and political culture, and human rights. He has published numerous books and articles on China's politics.

    Situ Hua, president of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic and Democratic Movement in China. Mr. Situ is a member of the Hong Kong legislature and an important leader of the Democratic Party of Hong Kong.

    Su Shaozhi, chairman of Princeton China Initiative. Once served as the director of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, he is a leading liberal political theoretician in China.

    Su Xiaokang, a Chinese writer well known for his epic The River's Elegy, a critical television program about China's political and cultural evolution. As an active participator in the 1989 democracy movement, he was forced to leave China. Now he is a fellow of the Princeton China Initiative and publisher of the bi-monthly journal "The Democratic China".

    Yang Liyu, professor of East Asian Studies at Seton Hall University

    Yu Ying-shi, professor of history at Princeton University. Mr. Yu has been a leading critic on the tyranny of the Chinese communists after he left China in 1950. After the Chinese government crackdown on the Democracy Movement in 1989, he devoted himself into helping the fled Chinese activists to settle down in the U.S and setting up the Princeton China Initiative.


    Members of Beijing Spring's Editorial Board

    Yu Dahai, Publisher of Beijing Spring and assistant professor of economics at Tufts University. Graduated from Beijing University and received a Ph.D. degree from Princeton University, he served as Chief Editor of Beijing Spring from June 1993 to June 1996 and then as President from June 1996 to September 2002. He is founding president of the Chinese Economists Society and former president of the Chinese Alliance for Democracy and the China Spring magazine.

    Wang Dan, President of Beijing Spring since September 2002. As a student leader from Beijing University in the 1989's Democracy Movement, he was on the most wanted list of the Chinese government after the June 4 crackdown. After being imprisoned for political reasons from July 1989 to February 1993 and again from May 1995 to April 1998, he came to the United States ad is now a doctoral student in Harvard University.

    Hu Ping, Chief Editor of Beijing Spring since 1996 and a regular commentator for Radio Free Asia. Received a Master's degree in philosophy from Beijing University and studied at Harvard University, he was once the Chief Writer of Beijing Spring from June 1993 to June 1996. He is former president of the Chinese Alliance for Democracy and the China Spring magazine.

    Chen Kuide, fellow of Princeton China Initiative and program host for Radio Free Asia. As once the Chief Editor of Shanghai's Thinker magazine, he actively took part in the 1989 democracy movement. He later received a Ph.D. degree in philosophy from Fudan University.

    Zheng Yi, member of the Princeton China initiative and a famous political critic. He once wrote articles to expose the cannibalism in Guangxi during the Great Cultural Revolution in China. As an important leader of the 1989 democracy movement, he was forced to leave China in 1992.

    Xue Wei, Manager of Beijing Spring since 1993. He was imprisoned in Sichuan for ten years for "counter-revolutionary activities" in the 1970's. He was among the founding members of the Chinese Alliance for Democracy and the China Spring magazine and has always served as a leader in promoting Chinese Democracy Movement dating back 1982.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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