A sense of direction
Once jailed in China, he's walking 500 miles to draw attention to rights abuses there
Jianli Yang has a PhD in math from Berkeley and a second doctorate in political economy and government from Harvard. He's got a wife and two children and is an active member of his Brookline church. Highly successful, he has started two foundations to help Chinese activists. So why in the world would he risk entering his native China on ... (Full article: 1404 words)
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