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  Harvard Business School Bulletin: Chai Ling
For five days, as Chai Ling lay in the suffocating darkness of a nailed-shut crate, these words sustained her more than her meager ration of bread and water ever could.
It had begun nearly a year earlier, in 1989, when Chai, a 23-year-old Beijing University student, was elected "chief commander" by the Tiananmen Square dissidents because of her leadership skills and electrifying speeches.
After the peaceful pro-democracy movement was crushed by the Chinese army, Chai had to flee her homeland to escape the authorities who relentlessly sought her arrest and imprisonment.
www.alumni.hbs.edu /bulletin/1998/june/salute/ling.html   (492 words)

  
 BW ebiz--6/23/99 Movers & Shakers: Chai Ling: From Tiananmen Leader to Netrepreneur
For Chai Ling, the 33-year-old CEO of Jenzabar.com, the touchstone was spending four days and five nights inside of a shipping crate being smuggled out of China in the spring of 1990.
Wanted by the Chinese authorities for her role as a student leader of the Tiananmen Square uprising in 1989, Chai faced imprisonment or even death if she and a companion were discovered on the desperate journey to Hong Kong and freedom.
Chai's business model anticipates four sources of revenue: corporate sponsorships, with high-profile placement of logos; subscription fees of $20 a year for each student, faculty member, and administrator; banner ads that would appear on the Jenzabar pages; and a percentage of E-commerce revenues from merchants that reach students through Jenzabar.
www.businessweek.com /ebiz/9906/em0623.htm   (1141 words)

  
  News Accounts: Chai Ling and Jenzabar
Over the years the image of Chai as heroine has become decidedly mixed as onetime allies have blamed her and other student leaders for the deadly end to the protests, painting them as power-hungry and willing to sacrifice others for their cause.
Chai Ling has spent years trying to cash in on her heroism at Tiananmen Square.
Chai Ling would like total control over her biography.
www.tsquare.tv /film/american_dream.html   (1479 words)

  
  Chai Ling Summary
Chai Ling (born 1966) was commander in chief of a 1989 student-led protest in China's Tiananmen Square, which ended with the massacre of hundreds of demonstrators by army troops and riot police.
Chai Ling was born in 1966 in the northeast Chinese province of Shandong.
Chai Ling (Chinese: 柴玲; pinyin: Chái Líng) (1966-) was one of the leaders in the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
www.bookrags.com /Chai_Ling   (2068 words)

  
 Books | Children of the revolution
Chai Ling, the so-called chief commander on the square, was seen on television all over the world every day for almost a month: a frail girl in baggy jeans, hectoring the crowds through a megaphone that seemed to hide her face.
Chai's tearful rhetoric owed something to universal student romanticism, exploited by Mao during the Cultural Revolution, but there were echoes of an older Chinese tradition: it was not rare for critics of the emperor to sacrifice their lives as the price for telling the truth.
Chai's adolescent dream was to have a television show for parents and children, then build a theme park and merchandise the clothes and toys.
books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4411035-101750,00.html   (2358 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: Speaking Freely -- April 23, 1998
Chai Ling was a psychology student in 1989 and also one of the democracy movement's main leader.
CHAI LING: Dissidents chose to be very effective in helping promoting democracy in China, continue the cause we all share and started with in 1989 but had to say the fundamental change had to come from inside China itself, from the current privatization.
CHAI LING: I believe what Wang Dan is talking--what he's saying that he's a personal feeling, versus whatever is going large--he's referring to a feeling probably not recognized today--that's caused guilt.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/asia/jan-june98/wangdan_4-23.html   (2031 words)

  
 THE BEIJING REBELLION - The New York Review of Books
Chai Ling thought so at one point—as she says in the May 28 interview Buruma quotes.
Buruma supposes that "there is some room for ambivalence" in Chai Ling's statement and reports her insistence that she meant "expect" rather than "hope for" when she used the verb qidai in association with bloodshed.
During the movement Chai Ling had developed a particular vision of nonviolent popular protest: that it should lead to the immediate overthrow of state power, even if the only way to achieve that was through mass self-sacrifice.
www.nybooks.com /articles/1540   (1557 words)

  
 Mum takes role to heart
Chai Ling Ling gave up her fashion designer job to be cook, nutritionist, driver, organiser and a great mum.
Chai worked with her children on them, before renovating their new home, to give them a sense of participation and to instil a love of art.
Chai, who was a fashion designer, quit her job when her daughter was two to become a full-time mother.
thestar.com.my /news/story.asp?file=/2007/5/13/focus/20070513074737&sec=focus   (1020 words)

  
 Chai Ling - Charlie Rose
On the seventh anniversary of the brutal attack of students by Chinese tanks and soldiers in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, Chai Ling, commander-in-chief of the student rebellion, and James Lilley, the U.S. Ambassador to China during the protest, talk about the incident and the PBS Frontline documentary "The Gate of Heavenly Peace".
Chai Ling was one of the leaders in the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
In April of 1989, Chai joined fellow students who were staging a sit-in protest at Beijing's Tiananmen Square, objecting to the government's lack of response to their demands for more freedom.
www.charlierose.com /guests/chai-ling   (276 words)

  
 Tian An Men Square, Chai Ling
Chai Ling, a 23-year-old child psychology student at Beijing University was elected Chief Commander of the Tian An Men Square Committee.
Chai Ling had always stood out from the crowd.
She built up her management skills and understanding of capitalist society, working as CEO of Jenzabar.com (from its founding in 1998 to the present), with the hope that she might someday be able to return to China and help build up its economy.
www.learntoquestion.com /seevak/groups/2003/sites/tiananmen/leftsidelinks/bios/chai_ling.html   (345 words)

  
 Ling's pictures and videos on Webshots
Diaz, Kyle, Hokie, and Ling @ Ling's house
Mark was a surprise for Linge, hiding behind the progra...
Linge's on the phone, while the forgot his name guy was...
www.webshots.com /search?query=Ling's   (161 words)

  
 CNN - Freedom fighter talks a Net revolution - June 23, 1999
Chai is known the world over for defying tanks just to speak her mind.
Ling Chai has some Western notions of running a business, thanks to spending part of the last 10 years as a student at Harvard Business School.
Chai's Tiananmen Square role, for which she was nominated for a Nobel Prize, has been challenged in recent years.
www.cnn.com /TECH/computing/9906/23/revolutionary.idg/index.html   (1028 words)

  
 Democracy Wall
It is unfornate to see that Chai Ling, as commander in chief, allowed the students to continue the protest when she could see the upcoming bloodshed.
All Chai Ling had accomplished was to put her followers on a suicidal clash with the government and a big setback on the reform movement in China.
Hi, Chai Ling, Comander-in-chief: If you really want to be a true leader of Chinese people, you should go back to China to lead to people in the grass roots as Mao and Sun Ya-sen did in the past and risk your own life together with the grassroot Chinese people.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/flfeedback/readflfeedbackgate.html   (15453 words)

  
 APM - Gate of Darkness
Chai repeatedly ignored or refused requests from the directors of Gate to be interviewed for the film.
Chai wrote in the style typical of what Kremlinologists used to call "esoteric communication", that is, coded Party rhetoric produced for public consumption but only fully understood by the politically initiated.
Chai Ling, for example, was named one of the Communist Youth League's top 100 students in 1982, at the age of 16.
coombs.anu.edu.au /SpecialProj/APM/TXT/barme-g-02-96.html   (2892 words)

  
 64memo - Chai Ling: From Tiananmen Leader to Netrepreneur by BUSINESSWEEK
For Chai Ling, the 33-year-old CEO of Jenzabar.com, the touchstone was spending four days and five nights inside of a shipping crate being smuggled out of China in the spring of 1990.
Administration and faculty have a built-in predisposition, Chai believes, for a standard platform they can use to organize coursework and communications with students and the rest of the campus community.
Chai figures if she can get 20% of the 750,000 faculty in the U.S. to adopt Jenzabar, she can claim victory.
www.64memo.com /b5/2255.htm   (1133 words)

  
 Forbes.com - Magazine Article   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In 1989 Chai Ling was dreaming about a personal revolution when she was swept up by a political one.
Ling was elected "chief commander" by the student dissidents and played a leading role in the anti-government movement before it was brutally crushed by the military.
Ling says it has not been easy for her to pursue her entrepreneurial dream.
www.forbes.com /1999/05/10/feat2_print.html   (558 words)

  
 Jenzabar
In 1998, Chai Ling founded a software company, Jenzabar, of which she is President and COO; her husband, Robert Maginn, is the CEO.
Chai Ling has also actively cultivated her public image and openly expressed her desire to use her connection to Tiananmen Square to promote her current activities.
Lyons may have been referring to an article written about Jenzabar by Chai Ling herself, which is headlined: "Revolution Has Its Price: In Tiananmen Square, she was a student leader who stood up to tanks.
www.tsquare.tv /film/jenzabar.html   (1020 words)

  
 Ten years later: Chinese dissidents using Net | CNET News.com
Other dissidents, such as Chai Ling, are taking a less confrontational approach to change: They are becoming Web entrepreneurs.
Chai, who recently earned a degree from Harvard Business School, started her Web company, Jenzabar, which provides a Web-based intranet application to universities.
While Chai wishes to separate her business from her 1989 activism, she says the Internet will become the main democratizing force in China.
news.com.com /2100-1023_3-226748.html   (1293 words)

  
 Ling chai - NA-ME   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Chai Ling was born in the city of Rìzhào in Shāndōng province.
Chai Ling (born 1966) was commander in chief of a 1989 student-led protest in China's Tiananmen Chai Ling was born in 1966 in the northeast
Chai Ling, a 23-year-old child psychology student at Beijing University was elected Chief Commander of the Tian An Men Square Committee.
frifinder.com /frfd/ling-chai.htm   (1196 words)

  
  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Chai Ling   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Chai Ling (Chinese: 柴玲; pinyin: Chái Líng) (1966-) was one of the leaders in the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
Chai Ling, the so-called chief commander on the square, was seen on television all over the world every day for almost a month: a frail girl in baggy jeans, hectoring the crowds through a megaphone that seemed to hide her face.
Chai's tearful rhetoric owed something to universal student romanticism, exploited by Mao during the Cultural Revolution, but there were echoes of an older Chinese tradition: it was not rare for critics of the emperor to sacrifice their lives as the price for telling the truth.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Chai-Ling   (1099 words)

  
 Chai Ling
For five days, as Chai Ling lay in the suffocating darkness of a nailed-shut crate, these words sustained her...
For Chai Ling, the 33-year-old CEO of Jenzabar.com, the touchstone...
Not long after Chai Ling launched her Internet start-up venture, her publicist boasted that she was ready for the rough...
www.tea.dlbgs.com /resources/chai-ling.html   (251 words)

  
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This morning at 8:55, when four of the CND members ran across her outside the OSU student dorm, three of them did not recongnize she is Chai Ling while saying "hi" to an IFCSS officer who was accompanying her.
Chai Ling was whispering and everyone quietly listened to her.
But they were invited to dine out and Chai Ling tried to decline but finally they accepted it, so CND will find another chance to interview the couple.
www.ifcss.net /cnd-2nd-congres-1.htm   (526 words)

  
 Vintage Catalog | Bad Elements by Ian Buruma
Chai Ling, the so-called chief commander on the Square, is the CEO of a computer software company in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Chai Ling was seen on television all over the world every day for almost a month: a small, frail girl in a grubby white T-shirt and baggy jeans, admonishing, entertaining, and hectoring the crowds through a megaphone that seemed to hide her whole face.
Chai’s speech on May 12 moved hundreds of people to go on a hunger strike when the government ignored the students’ demands for a public “dialogue,” and she galvanized the support of many thousands of others.
www.randomhouse.com /vintage/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0679781366&view=excerpt   (2009 words)

  
 Chai Ling   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Chai Ling (Chinese: 柴玲; Pinyin: Chái Líng) (born 15 April 1966) was one of the leaders in the Tian'anmen Square protests of 1989.
Chai Ling was born in the city of Rìzhào in Shāndōng province.
She runs a software company with her current husband, Robert A. Maginn Jr., who was the vice president and partner of the Boston office of Bain and Co. Maginn was instrumental in the hiring of Chai into Bain, a controversial move fiercely opposed by Bain's Asian partners for the fear of provoking the Chinese government.
www.kiwipedia.com /chai-ling.html   (809 words)

  
 Ling Chai: ZoomInfo Business People Information
Chai served as Chief Executive Officer from its inception to February 2001 and as Chairman of the Board from Jenzabar's inception to December 1998.
Chai received her undergraduate degree from Beijing University, and also holds a Master of Liberal Arts in Public Affairs from The Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University.
Chai is honored and profiled for her role in the 1989 pro-democracy student movement in China's Tiananmen Square.
www.zoominfo.com /people/Chai_Ling_98853341.aspx   (342 words)

  
 Cashing in on Tiananmen   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Chai Ling and Li Lu, who had been close allies during the Tiananmen demonstrations, have that machinery figured out.
Chai, who is now at Harvard Business School, is working on her memoirs.
His life did not become quite the star-studded multimedia event Li's and Chai's did, but of all the dissidents he has remained in closest touch with the cause of reform in China.
www.bostonphoenix.com /alt1/archive/news/97/03/27/CHINA_7.html   (1748 words)

  
 Lana Lin at Parlour Projects   (Site not responding. Last check: )
"No Power to Push Up the Sky" is a literal translation of the slogan 23-year old student leader Chai Ling wrote on her clothes during the 1989 protests in Tiananmen Square.
In a highly emotional interview conducted at her request by a young American journalist in Beijing, Chai Ling recalls writing these words as an expression of the students' sense of helplessness during the turbulent days preceding the massacre.
Chai Ling's explication of her motivations as "Commander-and-Chief" of the student movement were held under scrutiny by both Easterners and Westerners, and hinged upon translation of crucial words.
www.spareroom.org /invisible/inc_parlour.html   (277 words)

  
 CNN - Beyond Tiananmen: Clinton in China
Chai Ling was one of the most radical of the 1989 student leaders.
Despite what Clinton's critics have said of his official Chinese welcoming ceremony at the edge of Tiananmen Square, Chai Ling says Clinton is not only right to go to China, but he is right to go to the scene of the bloody massacre.
Unlike Chai Ling and some other student leaders who were active in the Tiananmen demonstrations, Wang urged protesters to leave the square when Beijing threatened to send in the military.
edition.cnn.com /WORLD/asiapcf/9806/28/kids.89   (512 words)

  
 Entrepreneur, business - Beyond Their Years   (Site not responding. Last check: )
After listening to Chai, it's apparent that her spirit and resolve are not so much learned as they are core elements of her very being.
Chai attended Beijing University for her undergraduate degree and Princeton for her master's degree, but it was being a guinea pig of the e-learning system at Harvard Business School that sparked her entrepreneurial flame.
Chai: My hiding was 10 months, a horrendous journey, and the last hundred five hours was in a cargo crate, with a cold piece of bread and a bottle of water.
www.entrepreneur.com /magazine/entrepreneur/2003/november/65006-2.html   (1311 words)

  
 Welcome to Jenzabar.net - Jenzabar's Corporate Website
Chai helped to lead the student-fueled Pro-Democracy movement in China that ended with the brutal 1989 Chinese government crackdown in the Tienneman square.
There she enrolled in Harvard Business School and now she is the founder and president of an Internet company, Jenzabar-that's a Chinese word loosely meaning "best and brightest." Jenzabar uses Internet technologies and services to open up the world for college students everywhere.
Chai rather, says most of her family has escaped China.
www.jenzabar.com /news/pressroom/cnn.html   (360 words)

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