Subject: CSS Today #95001, January 1, 1995

From: [email-masked] (Yuan Wei)
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Special Topic: Man of 1994 -------
     o  CSS Today Man of the Year: HUANG Lin ............................. 9
     o  The Man Who Dare Stand Out ...................................... 55
     o  Profile of HUANG Lin ............................................ 20

Eddie's Column -------------------
     o  In Search of a National CSS Agenda  ............................. 55

IFCSS Watch ----------------------
     o  YANG Jie Describes His Trip to Chinese Embassy .................. 45
     o  LUO Ning Raises Three Points in His Letter to LI Lanqing ........ 85
     o  IFCSS Representative Discusses China's HR With US Physicists .... 25

Humor, Anecdotes, and Puzzles ---
     o  Can a President Be Popular While His Policies Aren't ............ 60
     o  Answer to Last Issue's Puzzles .................................. 21

Letters to CSS Today -------------
     o  We Are Seeking the Law of Rules in China ........................ 50
     o  I Don't Like People Who Misuse Our Unity ......................... 4
     o  CSS Today Should Let Readers Know What Exactly Happened .......... 9

Information Sharing --------------
     o  China On-Line ................................................... 54

News-in-Brief --------------------
     o  Chinese Professors Form Organization ............................. 8
     o  Chinese Economists Society Calls for Papers ...................... 8

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CSS Today Man of the Year: HUANG Lin  .................................... 9
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By CSS Today

If there is any single event significant to mention for CSS in 1994, it is
CBS-IC's outstanding work that led to the victory of CSS in getting the
media giant CBS to apologize for its unjustified report; if there is any
individual significant to mention in CSS community in 1994, it is Mr. HUANG
Lin, the national coordinator of CBS-IC, that played a key role in making
the CSS history. CSS Today proudly selects Mr. HUANG Lin as the Man of the
Year of 1994.

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The Man Who Dare Stand Out .............................................. 55
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By LIN Xiping/CSS Today

HUANG Lin, better known in the networld as "Mi Mi, Sr.", is undoubtedly the
man to mark for what he has done in this year: He led a group of Chinese
students and scholars (CSS) to challenge CBS, one of the largest TV network
in the US, and succeeded in making CBS to hear and concede.

After the broadcast of CBS News of its May 19, 1994 "Eye on America", which
spit the spy suspicion on all Chinese in the US, so many people were so
angry that the net was jammed with protesting messages from the CSS
community. It was HUANG Lin who stood out and led this protest into a
coordinated nationwide effort with the formation of the CBS Incident
Committee (CBS-IC).

This is not a light commitment.  Not only he has to share the work loads as
the other members of the active core of CBS-IC, which means all their spare
time (and more!) during the summer and the two months after that they could
devote to their study, career or family, but also he has to bear the heat,
pressure and blames from all sides mostly alone.

This is a perilous journey that HUANG Lin had never prepared for himself
before he jumped into the boat.  In hindsight, one might trace back to his
family background for some clues about his determination: his family
suffered a great deal back in China during the Cultural Revolution because
some members of the family in his grandfather and father generations had
studied in the West. For all those who had come through that period of
ordeal know that to them the label of "imperialist spy" was a matter of
course. However, even HUANG Lin himself did not realize this at the
beginning, though, like many other CSS, he was so deeply upset about the
incident.  To all who knew him, he was just an ordinary engineering graduate
student who was about to write up his dissertation and find a job and settle
his family down in a decent life.  Although he was not unknown before on
netland, --he was quite active in the "Later Arriving Dependents (LADS)" net
under the name "Mi Mi, Sr."--this time it was an entirely different order of
magnitude.  He got frustrated many times and lost temper in others. He had
wondered again and again whether it was all worth it to spend time screening
hundreds of messages each day, to channel the energy of anger into
systematic studies, to shield the political attacks away from those working
in the CBS-IC, to endure the internal conflicts of IFCSS, and to network
with other Chinese community organizations which each has its own agenda and
priorities.  He could have spent time more enjoyably with his beautiful and
talented daughter, Mi Mi, to prepare for her scholarship, or to finish the
project his professor had assigned to him at the beginning of the summer.

Fortunately, he has a group of sturdy friends and comrades who stand firm
side by side with him all the way through.  That's what has made the
difference.  Individually, the Chinese community makes up one of the top
quality group of this society in terms of talent, education, career
achievement, and even wealth.  However, collectively our strength has been
pale in comparison.  Somehow we have yet to learn the art, science and
engineering of associating ourselves together to advance our community.

That is why we elect HUANG Lin as the man of the year of 1994, for he is the
representative of a group of new breed, whose accomplished mission has
illustrated what can be achieved if we are true to our conviction and to
each other, and dare stand out.

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Profile of HUANG Lin .................................................... 20
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By CSS Today

Mr. HUANG Lin, a.k.a. Mi Mi Sr. is a Ph.D. candidate in Mechanical
Engineering of City University of New York. HUANG Lin was one of the
founding members of the Internet LADs-l Committee, which was formed on
July 26, 1993, to help the later-arriving-dependents (LADs)of the CSPA
principles. Since Mr. HUANG's daughter, Mi Mi was stranded in China at that
time, he used Mi Mi Sr. as his pen name in the networks. The LADs-l
Committee has not only helped many thousands of LADs to apply for Green
Cards, but also launched a very aggressive lobby effort to relocate LADs
population into the world-wide pool, hoping to speed up the immigration
process for LADs and save precious China quota for later-comer students.

Mr. HUANG Lin's other efforts include helping CSPA beneficiaries to obtain
in-state-tuition-status, fighting to find the truth of the death of ZHAO
Hua, a home-visiting students of University of Wisconsin at Madison, who
died at HuaShan Hospital in Shanghai, and recent death of YANG Xiaohong,
who died at Guiyang police headquarters without any plausible explanations.
Huang Lin currently serves as the Chairman of the IFCSS Committee of Civil
Rights.

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In Search of a National CSS Agenda ..................................... 55
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By Eddie Cheng

Although the current IFCSS President LUO Ning won his election by a
Clintonesque campaign, he did not have a handy slogan, "It's the Economy,
Stupid!", when he needed it.  Such triviality would be unworthwhile to
mention had it no deeper implications.

Ask any IFCSS activists around you (if there are any, that is) to fill in
the blank "It's the ..., Stupid", chances are that you get no answer.  It
would be another matter if there were too many different answers, but it
is more dangerous when there is none.

Simply put, there is no longer a national CSS agenda.

IFCSS was born out of the outrage towards the 6.4. massacre and as such
maintains a high moral and emotional attachment to ideology and politics.
Her agenda in the following years were dominated by issues associated with
the aftermath, notably the lobbying on MFN and CSPA.  Those were the days
when a speech made by an IFCSS VIP could actually get criticized in the
name of CSS and/or Chinese people.  That time has since passed.

Today, the famed "internal fights" are still going on, only having
deteriorated into an endless quarrel over such noble issues as who spent
or overspent how much money on what without whose approval, who went to
which Chinese embassy/consulate as what for what and said or did what,
who should apologize to whom on what, who will sue whom, etc. etc.

Such things may have indeed crucial importance in keeping intact an
organization.  It bears no meaning on, however, the purpose for the
existence of such an organization.

After the MFN and CSPA, the human rights issue quiets down.  The current
HQ practically gives up on this agenda.  The HR banner is, of course,
promptly grasped and upheld by a group of IFCSS veterans who publish a
regular journal "Dignity", independent of the IFCSS (just like, ironically,
the CSS-Today, or earlier on, the CAL/AEIC).

One issue that had some national impact is the so-called civil rights, led by
a campaign against a CBS news report.  It is beyond the scope of this
commentary to give a detailed assessment to this issue (which the author
hopes to address in forthcoming ones).  Suffice to say here that such issues
tend to be short-lived.  The unique character and quality of the CSS
community dictates that there is no need (nor desire) for a cry-baby
organization like the NAACP or the Jewish Anti-Deformation League.

We see today that the IFCSS is having an agenda crisis.  For her uniqueness,
IFCSS can not survive on regional or national special interest services
alone, like so many other CSS organizations. IFCSS is also having an identity
crisis.  The choice between placing her root in mainland China to stake out a
bigger influence and being content here to cater the new CSS immigrants will
become the anchor point on her future.

It seems as though, the current IFCSS officers are too busy in their own
financial and unity crises.  They may continue to quarrel, but their voices
are dimmed.  Before long, perhaps, "It's Adieus, Stupid!"

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YANG Jie Describes His Trip to Chinese Embassy ......................... 45
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By LIU Zhuo/CSS Today

The Chinese embassy officials seem to still hold "no contact" policy towards
IFCSS, the IFCSS HQ officer YANG Jie told CSS Today reporter in a recent
interview. Mr. Yang made an appearance in the Chinese embassy at Washington,
D.C. last month, and attempted to hand a letter from IFCSS president LUO
Ning to the visiting Chinese Vice Premier LI Lanqing but failed. The letter
(from LUO Ning) was accepted by LI Lanqing but was immediately taken over
by Ambassador LI Daoyu and handed back to me," Yang said. While the
Ambassador knows IFCSS very well, the visiting Vice Premier seemed to be in
the dark, according to Yang.

On November 4, 1994, YANG Jie was invited as one of local student leaders
representing CGSA of University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP) to attend a
press conference and reception party sponsored by PRC Embassy in Washington,
DC for LI Lanqing's working visit to the United States. YANG Jie's name was
printed on the invitation letter from the Embassy on behalf of Ambassador LI
Daoyu. The name list of students attending the reception was provided by
leaders of local student organizations, Yang said.

The press conference lasted about 30 minutes and then interested individuals
were invited to take pictures with LI Lanqing and his wife. At the moment
when LI Lanqing left the photo-taking site, accompanied by Ambassador
LI Daoyu and other embassy staff, "I caught an opportunity and handed over
LUO Ning's letter to Mr. LI Lanqing", YANG recalled. YANG told LI that
"This is a letter of IFCSS President LUO Ning. It is a letter to you."
LI himself accepted it without reluctance and quietly passed it over to his
staff (maybe secretary) beside him.

Ambassador LI Daoyu overheard the exchange and came over to YANG, asking
what it was. "It is a letter of IFCSS President LUO Ning to Vice Premier
LI Lanqing", YANG replied. As long as Ambassador LI Daoyu realized that
it was something to do with IFCSS, he promptly grabbed the letter back from
the secretary and returned it to YANG, preventing LI Lanqing's staff member
from accepting the letter.

After the attempt to deliver the letter to LI Lanqing failed, YANG Jie
stayed another 20 minutes or so at the embassy, talking to students from
other local campuses and some diplomats of the embassy.

YANG later mailed the letter to Ambassador LI Daoyu on November 8, 1994,
asking him to forward it to LI Lanqing, whose current visit in the US was
about two weeks. Additional copy was faxed and sent to Mr. HE Jinqiu, newly
arrived ministry consular of education. On November 28, 1994, the letter
was sent directly to LI Lanqing's office in Beijing. "We are waiting for
the responses," YANG Jie told the reporter.

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LUO Ning Raises Three Points in His Letter to LI Lanqing ................ 85
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By LIU Zhuo/CSS Today

In his recent letter to the visiting Chinese Vice Premier LI Lanqing, the
IFCSS president LUO Ning briefly introduces IFCSS and proposes three
areas in which IFCSS and Chinese government agencies and concerned
institutions could collaborate potentially in the future. The three areas
are: information collection and status assessment of home returning CSS,
education rescue and other exchange programs, and cultural heritage
promotion in US.

CSS Today has acquired a copy of the letter of LUO Ning. The text is as
follows:

"As you commence your official visit to the Unites States, I would like to,
on behalf of the Independent Federation of Chinese Students and Scholars
(IFCSS), extend my welcome to you and all members of your delegation. We
wish you all have a pleasant and fruitful experience during your visit.
At the same time, we would like to take this opportunity to share with you
briefly what IFCSS' role has been in our community and what we propose to
do to contribute to the development of China and further promote exchanges
between US and China.

"IFCSS is a national organization with more than two hundred local chapters
representing over 60,000 Chinese students, scholars and professionals in the
US. Over the past five years, IFCSS has demonstrated its strong leadership
capacity in mobilizing its available resources to advocate and protect the
rights and interests of its members.  At the same time, we have tried to
exert our influence in the US Congress and other governmental institutions
by way of enhancing American people's knowledge and understanding of the
social, political and economic situations in China.

"What China has accomplished economically in the last fifteen years is as
impressive as it is encouraging to us who hope to see her prosper. As China
continues to pursue its reform and open policy, those of us who have
graduated from the universities here or are about to conclude our study feel
strongly that it is our historical responsibility to participate in and
contribute to the unprecedented social, economic and cultural transformation
that is taking place in our motherland even as we speak. In light of this,
we would like to propose the following:

"First of all, we would welcome an opportunity to explore with concerned
agencies or organizations in China possible collaborative projects to help
the students and scholars here to make more informed choices and better
adjust to the changed environment at home, whether they are thinking of a
short-term visit or long-term settlement. While we appreciate the special
provisions the government has made to accommodate our diverse needs, we
realize, as you too may be well aware, that the major obstacles to our
returning home permanently remains the fear of unwarranted institutional and
bureaucratic constraints and the lack of legal protection over the academic,
educational or business exchange activities carried out by overseas students
and scholars returning to China. Therefore we would like to conduct a
realistic assessment of the situation of those of our friends and colleagues
who have returned to China to seek career opportunities in academic,
business and professional advancement. Meanwhile, the database of those of
us with various expertise and interests that our placement center plans to
develop can definitely help institutions in China willing to recruit
overseas talents find the right match.

"Secondly, we need the cooperation of the government and concerned
institutions in carrying out some of our projects that intend to provide
help to teachers and students in remote impoverished areas to continue basic
education; to help inland, more secluded regions to access and benefit from
the information and technological know-how from abroad; and to promote
exchange, dialogue and collaboration between the students and scholars who
choose to stay here and their Chinese colleagues at home in the fields of
education, science and technology, environmental protection, etc.

"Thirdly, in order to preserve and promote our cultural heritage in the
emerging community of new immigrants from China, we would like the
government and concerned institutions to provide us with textbooks and
audio-video tapes suitable for children and adults living in the US to
learn Chinese language and the rudiments of Chinese culture. In the last two
years we have witnessed the heartening growth of some Chinese languages
schools founded by Chinese students and scholars; we would like to help
support and nourish them.  We expect that Chinese textbooks and audio-video
tapes produced for educational purposes will be in great demand and will be
extremely welcome in the US. We believe that it is in the best interest of
China and the US and the world in general to build a good relationship
between the two peoples on the basis of genuine understanding and
appreciation of each other's culture and tradition.  Historically the
overseas Chinese in the US have played an instrumental role in enhancing
the mutual understanding of the two nations.  We believe that such mutual
understanding will become more and more important in the days to come.

"Thank you for your favorable consideration of our proposal. We look forward
to hearing your response."

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IFCSS Representative Discusses China's HR With US Physicists ............ 25
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By HU Sen

On Dec. 15, 1994, experts in the United States hold a conference on
statistical physics at Rutgers University, New Jersey. During the meeting a
special session was devoted on topic of China's human rights. The conference
organizers invited Ms. Sophia Woodman from China Human Rights to give a
presentation on China's human rights. Dr. HU Sen representing IFCSS also
gave a short presentation.

On the same day it was announced in China that Mr. KANG Yuchun is sentenced
to 17 years in jail and Mr. HU Yuchun 20 years in jail because they had
tried to form independent organizations. The audience were made aware of
these sentences. Several other cases compiled by Mr. ZHANG Yalai of IFCSS'
humanitarian committee such as the harassment to Mrs. DING Zhilin, the ban
of Mr. FANG Zheng from an international competition were also distributed
to the audience.

During the meeting the participants raised several concerns. One of the
main discussion was on whether to boycott the coming meeting at Xiamen which
is a continuation of this meeting next summer for improving China's human
rights. Sophia Woodman and HU Sen did not favor this idea. They argued that
to boycott the meeting won't bring any impact to China's human rights. The
best way to bring about improvement to China's human rights situation is to
have interactions with rather than to be away from China. Most of the
participants were convinced after their presentation. The organizer Prof.
Lebowitz is an prestigious scientists in statistical physics who is also a
champion in human rights for several decades. Prof. Lebowitz is currently
a Board member of China Human Rights in New York.

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Can A President Be Popular While His Policies Aren't
  -- A Voting Paradox ................................................... 60
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By WANG Yang

The most important feature of a democracy is its reliance on voting for
decision makings. But this seemingly perfect means lends itself to numerous
paradoxes, some of which could undermine the effectiveness of the system.

It was discovered in the late 60's by Kenneth Arrow that it is impossible to
design a voting system that is "transitive", meaning that it is impossible
to design a voting system in which if person A is preferred to person B and
person B is preferred to person C, then person A is also preferred to person C.

Here I would like to present a different kind of voting paradox, along with
some questions for you to think about.

It was well-known that Ronald Reagan was a very popular president, with
approval ratings consistently around 60 percent. But his policies were very
unpopular generally speaking, with approval ratings usually in the low 40
percent. This phenomenon was treated as a puzzle by the media, whose
explanations varied widely from Reagan's "strong leadership" to his
"charisma" to a "good economy".

Bill Clinton seems to be heading the opposite direction. While his policies
have received respectable approval ratings, his personal approval rating
has been atrocious most of the time, once even threatened to go below 30
percent. Once again, the "experts" in the media couldn't agree on the cause
of this phenomenon.

While I don't completely disagree with the "experts" in the media as to the
cause of such a paradox in Reagan and Clinton, it seems obvious that none of
these so-called "experts" is aware of the mathematics of voting paradoxes.

The astonishing fact is that it is mathematically possible that a president
is EXTREMELY unpopular while ALL his policies are approved by the majority
of the public. To see this we use a very simplified example, namely whether
Bill Clinton is approved by the public is determined by the public's
approval of his 3 policies: tax increases, Bosnia, and gays in the military.

Suppose that 1/4 of the population approves ALL three policies, and the
other 3/4 of the population divide evenly in supporting ONE and ONLY ONE of
the three policies. Then each policy will receive a 50% approval rating, in
which case we can say that all three policies are approved by the public.
However, if we look at Bill Clinton himself, we find that 3/4 of the
population disagree with him on 2 out of 3 policies. This gives Clinton a
disapproval rating of 75 per cent!

My questions for you are the following:

1)  Suppose 5 policies are used to evaluate President Clinton. What is the
highest disapproval rating can Clinton get while all of his 5 policies have
at least a 50 percent approval rating?

2)  Suppose President Clinton is judged on X number of policies. All of his
policies are approved by at least 50 percent of the population while his
disapproval rating is at least 90 percent. What is the smallest X that can
be?

3)  Suppose President Reagan was judged on 7 policies and each one of his
policies received no more than a 40 percent approval rating. What is the
highest approval rating President Reagan can receive?

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Answer to Last Issue's Puzzles .......................................... 21
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By WANG Yang

The Triangular Duel: If everyone adopts the best strategy, then Wang Five
has the highest chance to survive. Clearly, Zhang Three (100% shooter) will
shoot at Li Four (80% shooter) instead of Wang Five (50% shooter) at his
turn if Li Four is still alive, and Li Four will shoot at Zhang Three
instead of Wang Five at his turn if Zhang Three is still alive. So the best
strategy for Wang Five is to shoot into air until one of Zhang and Li is
dead. This way he will always get the first shot at the remaining one with
50% chance of killing him. Zhang is next likely to survive and Li is least
likely to survive. The chance to survive for each are: 47/90 for Wang Five,
27/90 for Zhang Three, and 16/90 for Li Four.

Several readers have pointed out that Wang Five is the most likely survivor
and that his best strategy is to shoot into air. They are WU Yegang, ZHANG
Tongxiao, ZHANG Xiaoguang, ZHOU Xiaomin. ZHANG Xiaoguang pointed out that
the best strategy for all of them is to shoot into air at every turn so they
all survive. But unfortunately this requires a deep trust between all three
of them, which doesn't exist or they will never agree on the duel in the
first place. ZHANG Xiaoguang also pointed out that it can't be called a
"duel" when there are three people involved. He proposed "triel" for the
name. Good point.

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We Are Seeking the Law of Rules in China ................................ 50
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>From HUANG Lin

In response to Alex Du's message carried by CSS Today, I would like to point
out that the significance of the YANG Xiaohong case is not only "doing a
favor", but also exercising our unalienable rights.  We are seeking the law
of rules in China

Due to the recent intense campaign led by IFCSS Committee of Civil Rights
(IFCSS CCR), Mr. YANG Xiaohong's death has caught wide-spread attention and
support from CSS and overseas Chinese community. Had not been pushed by the
community altogether, the Mayor of Guiyang City would not have ordered a
special investigation. Since the results was inconclusive, the victim's
family is appealing to even higher authority, thus bringing this case to a
new level.

Throughout recent history, people have organized to struggle for rights to
which they felt entitled either by law or by a sense of justice. A milestone
case in the United States was that of Ms. Rosa Parks. Returning home from
her job in Montgomery, she refused a bus driver's order to surrender her
seat to a white man in December 1955. She was then jailed and fined $14,
which sparked the 381-day Montgomery bus boycott that led to a 1956 Supreme
Court order outlawing discriminatory practices on Montgomery buses. As a
follower of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., her action was actually part of a
plan to create a court test case.

Mr. YANG Xiaohong's death is not an intended case to test the court.
Actually, his death at police headquarters is not only a violation of basic
Human Rights, but also a violation of current Chinese law.

Due to the lack of free press and speech, the victim's family has no way to
appeal to the general public to seek the justice. Furthermore, due to the
nature of the incident, this case has been dismissed by western media even
after it had reached outside China. However, we consider this case is
significant since it concerns the ordinary Chinese and everyday life of the
people. We might not have a famous dissident brother who has the attention
of the world, but we may have one who just rides a taxi home or engages in
any other legitimate activities. The justice is not the privileges for the
famous few, but also for the ordinary citizens. While the international
efforts to help famous dissidents are praised and hailed, the ordinary
citizens also deserve our help.

All our activities are also legitimate in China. We have been appealing to
the appropriate government agencies and officials through the means
provided by Chinese Laws. During the process, we are also awakening the
self-awareness of CSS community and generating grassroots support. By
exerting pressure on the appropriate government agencies and officials, we
are actually pushing the authority to abide the existing laws, and letting
the ordinary people know what they can do to actually protect their own
rights through proper channels. All the activities conducted by YXH-C, is
well defined by the First Amendment, which guarantees the freedom of the
speech, of the press, or the right to assemble peaceably and to petition the
government for redress of grievances.

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I Don't Like People Who Misuse Our Unity ................................. 4
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>From YU Baoan

Your view (on YANG Xiaohong incident) is a new and good point, I agree with
it. I don't like the way they ask for donation about it. Yang's brother even
doesn't bother to give us an E-mail address or phone number for inquiry. I
don't like people who misuse our unity.

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CSS Today Should Let Readers Know Exactly What Happened .................. 9
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>From [email-masked]

Now it's clear that Mr. YANG Jie, as a representative of local CSS
community, attended the reception at CG Embassy in 11-7-1994. It's not a bad
idea to promote the contact between CG and Chinese organizations in the U.S.
However, as a medium, CSS Today should let readers know exactly what
happened. His guest status should be a representative from local CSS rather
then an IFCSS officer on your report. Of course, you could have mentioned he
also served as an officer of IFCSS.

==========================<<<<< Information Sharing >>>>>===================
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Chinese Professors Form Organization ..................................... 8
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Based on CES Newsletter Dec. 1994

Association of Chinese Professors of Social Sciences in the United States
was formed last October in Texas, USA.  Membership requirements include
doctoral degree from an overseas institution, assistant professorship or
above; research fellow status or above. The association's first annual
meeting will be held in University of Minnesota from March 24 to 26 of 1995.
For information, send a message to TIAN Guoqiang at [email-masked].

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Chinese Economists Society Calls for Papers .............................. 8
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Based on CES Newsletter Dec. 1994

The 10th annual Meeting of the Chinese Economists Society will be held at
the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan from the August 18 to 20.
The theme of the annual meeting will be "The Emerging Market Federalism
in China".  For paper submission, send two copies by February 20, 1995 to
Prof. David Li, Department of Economics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
MI 48109-1220.

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