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Deaths can be mysterious in China, not least because Chinese officialdom has a way of forgetting that anyone has died.(The Week)

National Review

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Deaths can be mysterious in China, not least because Chinese officialdom has a way of forgetting that anyone has died. So it was with 71-year-old Han Dingxiang, a Catholic bishop who--according to a religious-rights group--spent some 35 years in prison, labor camps, and other forms of state custody. "This name is not on our list of bishops," explained a Chinese religious-affairs bureaucrat. "We don't know this person ...

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