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With a mix of music, art and a little cheer to pump up the energy, the student-organized Democracy Day pulled in large numbers of voters Friday, many of them Duke students. By the end of the day, 848
Since the Tiananmen Square killings it has become fashionable within the Chinese leadership to refer to dissident intellectuals as “scum.” That was Mao’s view, too. In 1942, the chairman, his armies besieged by both Chiang Kai-shek and the Japanese army, took time off for zheng-feng, or rectification movement, in which he laid down rules for “unclean” Chinese authors.