"[Taiwanese defector] Lin applied to study economics at People’s University in Beijing and was..."

By: vivian on domingo, outubro 15, 2017

“[Taiwanese defector] Lin applied to study economics at People’s University in Beijing and was rejected. His official file, the dang’an, contained every suspicion ever raised about his political history. For Lin, defection would always be a cause for suspicion; in the language of the day, people said he had “origins unclear.” After the rejection, he applied to Peking University. Dong Wenjun, an administrator, worried that Lin might turn out to be a spy, but ultimately decided, as he put it later, that there was “no intelligence to be gathered in the economics department anyway.” Lin was accepted.”

- quoted from Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth and Faith in the New China, by Evan Osnos

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