Add to your saved storiesSave Jiang Ping, a Chinese legal scholar forced to resign a university president post after backing the 1989 pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square but who remained an influential voice for the rights of citizens against the powers of the state, died Dec. 19 at a hospital in Beijing. He was 92. … Read more
Add to your saved storiesSave Merle Goldman, a prominent scholar of Chinese affairs who specialized in the work of writers and dissidents confronting the powerful central state, positing that China’s rise as a global economic force could eventually pry open Beijing’s tight lid on opposition, died Nov. 16 at her home in Cambridge, Mass. She … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave Former U.S. Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y), a cerebral politician ever ready with a bon mot, once raised a glass at a celebration and toasted “the other man” in his wife’s life. He was referring not to a paramour or an old flame, but to the 16th-century … Read more
In the last few years, China’s government has promoted increasingly conservative social values, encouraging women to focus on raising children. It has cracked down on civil society movements and made laws to drive out foreign influence. So a 75-year-old Japanese feminist scholar who’s not married and does not have children is an unlikely celebrity on … Read more
For 3 many years after the Holocaust, Nechama Tec tried to maneuver previous her wartime reminiscences. She refused to learn concerning the genocide or watch motion pictures about World Warfare II, focusing as an alternative on her sociology profession in the USA, the place she studied teenage drug use within the Connecticut suburbs. When acquaintances … Read more