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International Law,
Civil Litigation

Aug. 22, 2024

Dissident's works face destruction in China, professor says

Stanford University has maintained that Li Rui, a personal secretary and later prisoner of Mao Zedong, intended for his works to be preserved by the school's Hoover Institution. Li's widow in China wants them returned to his native country.

The Chinese government will almost certainly sequester a high-ranking dissident's personal notebooks and manuscripts and censor the material to fit its revisionist history, a scholar of Chinese history and literature testified Wednesday in an ownership battle between Stanford University and the dissident's widow. 

Li Rui's works would not go unnoticed and would be closely guarded by the Chinese Communist Party, said Eugene Perry Link Jr., a professor at UC Riverside an...

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