Harry Wu and China.
A rebroadcast of a 1994 interview with Chinese-American human rights campaigner and scholar Harry Wu. He is currently being held on espionage charges in China. He was detained on June 19 when he attempted to enter the country. Wu had made several secret trips to China under an assumed identity to document human rights abuses in Chinese prisons. Wu himself was held for 19 years in Chinese labor camps from 1960 to 1979. When he was released he emigrated to the U.S. (Rebroadcast of 01/11/1994)
China scholar Orville Schell. He'll discuss the arrest of Harry Wu and reflect on how that affects U.S and China relations. One human rights advocate called the action a, "declaration of war against the United States on the human rights issue." Schell has written nine books about China, as well as contributing to magazines and television. His latest book is Mandate of Heaven: A New Generation of Entrepreneurs, Dissidents, Bohemians, and Technocrats Lays Claim to China's Future. (Simon & Schuster, 1994)
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