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...Yu Jianrong, a director of the Institute of Rural Development at Beijing's most prestigious think tank, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, or CASS, acknowledges that the recent assertions of rights over land by peasants are potentially transformational. "They're not widespread now but they could become symbolic ... of peasants ceasing to depend on the law and instead depending on 'natural law.'" Journalist and author Chen Guidi is more blunt: "If word of these declarations starts to spread to peasants around the countryside, it could become uncontrollable." Chen, with his wife Wu Chuntao, is the author of Will...
...Communist Party is aware of the farmers' anger but seems limited in what it can do. Yu of CASS notes that although there is "widespread recognition in both political and academic circles that the existing rural land system faces extremely grave problems, an extremely large gap also exists over the nature of the problem and how to solve it." Given that the party rose to power as an agrarian movement, conservative forces are blocking attempts to grant private ownership of farmland, which they believe would destroy one of the party's most fundamental socialist tenets. The answer, say Yu...
Waiters served dishes such as kung pao chicken, yu xiang eggplant, and roast duck that were to be shared by the entire table...
Audience members said they especially enjoyed the high-kicking, floor-pounding wu-shu demonstration, as well as the broadsword performance put on by Lisa M. Yu ’11 and Stephen J. Chester...
...Board of Governors of the U.S. Federal Reserve System. Following his time in government, Ferguson, who also holds both a law degree and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard, became the chairman of Swiss Re American Holding Corp., a leading reinsurance company. The University also announced that Pauline Yu ’71, president of the American Council of Learned Studies and former dean of the humanities at the University of California, Los Angeles, would succeed Lee as the vice chair of the board’s executive committee. In a statement, Faust praised the experience and fresh views that...