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Willem-Jan Markerink
Sep 30, 2012, 3:31:36 PM9/30/12
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Netizens suggest Bo Xilai's former mistress on display in Body Worlds
Staff Reporter
2012-08-19
14:43 (GMT+8)
Zhang Weijie was a former news anchor for Dalian TV. (Internet photo)
Zhang Weijie was a former news anchor for Dalian TV. (Internet photo)
One of the displays in Body Worlds, a world famous exhibit showcasing the
parts of the human body through plastinated, preserved corpses, has struck a
number of internet users in China as being somewhat unusual, even familiar.
Netizens suspect a body of a pregnant woman in the current display might
belong to Zhang Weijie, a former mistress of the disgraced politician Bo
Xilai and a well-known anchor of Dalian Television who went missing,
according to Boxun, a Chinese-language citizen journalism website which often
makes claims that are difficult to prove.
Zhang was reported to be Bo Xilai's mistress in 1998 and she openly
challenged Bo's wife Gu Kailai after she was found to be pregnant. Gu, who
was reportedly trying to bring down the news anchor from behind the scenes,
eventually called upon national and public security forces to threaten Zhang
into leaving her job. After she left television, Zhang took to petitioning
against Gu until she fell into a state of hysteria.
She was secretly detained at the Dalian Nanshan Hotel and reportedly
attempted suicide several times, Boxun said, adding that she later
disappeared and nobody has known her whereabouts ever since.
Some netizens have suggested that the pregnant woman's body at the Body
Worlds exhibition resembles Zhang in the shape of the skull and the near
mature fetus inside the body seems not to be the result of an abortion.
Internet forums have been directing posts at the Von Hagens Plastination Co
in Dalian, questioning their legal use of the bodies in the exhibit. Some
suggested that it was Bo who approved the company's registration when he was
mayor of Dalian in 1999, and the bodies used are all from the city in
northeastern China.
Some suspect that Gunther von Hagens, the founder of the company, had a
special connection with Bo, but Rurik von Hagens, Gunther's son, said their
family has neither a private nor a business relationship with the former
mayor.
According to Boxun, under the company's regulations, when dealing with the
bodies, the facial characteristics of the bodies are kept confidential,
making it impossible to identify who is in the display. Netizens have also
suspected that the company may have been set up in Dalian because China does
not have any laws against the processing and exporting of corpses.
Bo Xilai was seen as a rising star in Chinese politics until his dramatic
downfall earlier this year when reports of his wife's murder of British
businessman Neil Heywood, formerly a close friend of the family, came to
light. Bo was dismissed as Chongqing party chief and suspended from his
senior party posts pending investigation into his "serious disciplinary
violations." Gu Kailai on Monday was given a suspended death sentence for the
intentional homicide of Heywood.
References:
Bo Xilai ???
Zhang Weijie ???
Gu Kailai ???
Editor's note: On August 29, 2012, Want China Times received a letter from
lawyers representing von Hagen's plastination firm denying that it had
displayed the plastinated body of Zhang Weijie and demanding a retraction.
Want China Times' response can be found here: http://goo.gl/BfX5M
This article has also been edited from its original version to better reflect
the sources of the allegations.
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Society
Body Worlds denies displaying Bo Xilai's mistress
Staff Reporter
2012-08-30
17:20 (GMT+8)
A plastinated body on display at a Body Worlds exhibition in Brussels,
Belgium. (Photo/Xinhua)
A plastinated body on display at a Body Worlds exhibition in Brussels,
Belgium. (Photo/Xinhua)
The controversial exhibition Body Worlds has strongly refuted speculation
that one of its shows features the plastinated body of Zhang Weijie, the
missing Dalian newswoman rumored to have been a mistress of the disgraced
Chinese politician Bo Xilai. The allegation was first made by Boxun, a US-
based Chinese-language citizen journalism site sourced by anonymous users
which frequently makes claims that are dificult to prove, and was covered by
Want China Times in a report on Boxun's claims.
According to an email from the attorneys of Plastination Company Inc and
Gunther von Hagens, the inventor of the process which has allowed the inner
workings of human cadavers to be displayed around the world, the Aug. 19
article titled "Bo Xilai's former mistress on display in Body Worlds: Boxun"
published on the Want China Times website is "false and defamatory."
Without identifying any offending passages or statements, the Aug. 29 email
accuses generally that the article "states or implies" that the Body Worlds
exhibition "included the plastinated body of Zhang Weijie, the former
mistress of Chinese politician Bo Xilai."
"That statement is completely false. The statement also defames and causes
serious injury to Dr von Hagens and Plastination Company, Inc," the email
added.
The article in question was a report on a piece uploaded by Boxun, which has
closely followed allegations related to the former Chongqing Communist party
chief Bo Xilai since February, when the chain of events that brought about
his downfall began. The focus of the Aug. 19 article was Boxun's observation
that Chinese netizens have speculated that the plastinated body of a pregnant
woman displayed at Body Worlds may belong to the missing anchorwoman.
The article also cited Boxun's allegation that Zhang was Bo's mistress in
1998 and disappeared after his wife Gu Kailai discovered that the TV
presenter was pregnant with Bo's child. It also reported that netizens have
speculated that Bo, as the then-mayor of Dalian, may have been the person who
approved the registration of Von Hagen's plastination company in the city in
1999, around the time of Zhang's disappearance.
While the Want China Times article highlights one of the many widely
circulated internet rumors relating to the Bo Xilai scandal, it at no time
suggests or implies that the rumors are true or that Dr Von Hagens or
Plastination Company were ever involved in any wrongdoing.
Various news outlets and blogs have also picked up on the Boxun piece,
including Taiwan's Apple Daily and ETtoday, the US-based World Journal, as
well as the English magazine site Goldsea.
According to Goldsea, which also received a similar letter from lawyers, Von
Hagens admitted during a 2010 interview that his exhibitions had once used
bodies from China but stopped after learning that they were "probably
executed prisoners." He was subsequently sued by Arnie Geller, the former
head of rival Premier Exhibitions, who claimed that van Hagen's comments
implied that Premier had used prisoners. Geller said all the bodies used his
exhibitions had died from natural causes.
Goldsea also reported that Von Hagens had denied allegations that he paid a
former plastination technician to lie about rival practices or fabricate
petitions to prevent competitors from opening their own exhibits.
The speculation of Chinese netizens arising out of the Bo Xilai scandal stems
largely from their fascination with Communist Party officials and the party's
tendency to deal with political controversies behind closed doors. Bo's
situation is regarded as particularly sensitive as he was a rising political
star destined for the upper echelons of power until his former police chief
Wang Lijun fled to the US consulate in Chengdu in February with apparent
evidence that Bo's wife had murdered British businessman Neil Heywood. Gu was
handed a suspended death sentence earlier this month after confessing to the
murder, while Bo reportedly remains under house arrest pending the outcome of
his investigation for unspecified "serious discipline violations."
References:
Zhang Weijie ???
Bo Xilai ???
Gu Kailai ???
Wang Lijun ???
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Bye,
Willem-Jan Markerink
The desire to understand
is sometimes far less intelligent than
the inability to understand
<w.j.ma...@a1.nl>
[note: 'a-one' & 'en-el'!]
http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?cid=1101&MainCatID=11
&id=20120819000054
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
News
Politics
Netizens suggest Bo Xilai's former mistress on display in Body Worlds
Staff Reporter
2012-08-19
14:43 (GMT+8)
Zhang Weijie was a former news anchor for Dalian TV. (Internet photo)
Zhang Weijie was a former news anchor for Dalian TV. (Internet photo)
One of the displays in Body Worlds, a world famous exhibit showcasing the
parts of the human body through plastinated, preserved corpses, has struck a
number of internet users in China as being somewhat unusual, even familiar.
Netizens suspect a body of a pregnant woman in the current display might
belong to Zhang Weijie, a former mistress of the disgraced politician Bo
Xilai and a well-known anchor of Dalian Television who went missing,
according to Boxun, a Chinese-language citizen journalism website which often
makes claims that are difficult to prove.
Zhang was reported to be Bo Xilai's mistress in 1998 and she openly
challenged Bo's wife Gu Kailai after she was found to be pregnant. Gu, who
was reportedly trying to bring down the news anchor from behind the scenes,
eventually called upon national and public security forces to threaten Zhang
into leaving her job. After she left television, Zhang took to petitioning
against Gu until she fell into a state of hysteria.
She was secretly detained at the Dalian Nanshan Hotel and reportedly
attempted suicide several times, Boxun said, adding that she later
disappeared and nobody has known her whereabouts ever since.
Some netizens have suggested that the pregnant woman's body at the Body
Worlds exhibition resembles Zhang in the shape of the skull and the near
mature fetus inside the body seems not to be the result of an abortion.
Internet forums have been directing posts at the Von Hagens Plastination Co
in Dalian, questioning their legal use of the bodies in the exhibit. Some
suggested that it was Bo who approved the company's registration when he was
mayor of Dalian in 1999, and the bodies used are all from the city in
northeastern China.
Some suspect that Gunther von Hagens, the founder of the company, had a
special connection with Bo, but Rurik von Hagens, Gunther's son, said their
family has neither a private nor a business relationship with the former
mayor.
According to Boxun, under the company's regulations, when dealing with the
bodies, the facial characteristics of the bodies are kept confidential,
making it impossible to identify who is in the display. Netizens have also
suspected that the company may have been set up in Dalian because China does
not have any laws against the processing and exporting of corpses.
Bo Xilai was seen as a rising star in Chinese politics until his dramatic
downfall earlier this year when reports of his wife's murder of British
businessman Neil Heywood, formerly a close friend of the family, came to
light. Bo was dismissed as Chongqing party chief and suspended from his
senior party posts pending investigation into his "serious disciplinary
violations." Gu Kailai on Monday was given a suspended death sentence for the
intentional homicide of Heywood.
References:
Bo Xilai ???
Zhang Weijie ???
Gu Kailai ???
Editor's note: On August 29, 2012, Want China Times received a letter from
lawyers representing von Hagen's plastination firm denying that it had
displayed the plastinated body of Zhang Weijie and demanding a retraction.
Want China Times' response can be found here: http://goo.gl/BfX5M
This article has also been edited from its original version to better reflect
the sources of the allegations.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?id=20120830000137&cid=
1103
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
News
Society
Body Worlds denies displaying Bo Xilai's mistress
Staff Reporter
2012-08-30
17:20 (GMT+8)
A plastinated body on display at a Body Worlds exhibition in Brussels,
Belgium. (Photo/Xinhua)
A plastinated body on display at a Body Worlds exhibition in Brussels,
Belgium. (Photo/Xinhua)
The controversial exhibition Body Worlds has strongly refuted speculation
that one of its shows features the plastinated body of Zhang Weijie, the
missing Dalian newswoman rumored to have been a mistress of the disgraced
Chinese politician Bo Xilai. The allegation was first made by Boxun, a US-
based Chinese-language citizen journalism site sourced by anonymous users
which frequently makes claims that are dificult to prove, and was covered by
Want China Times in a report on Boxun's claims.
According to an email from the attorneys of Plastination Company Inc and
Gunther von Hagens, the inventor of the process which has allowed the inner
workings of human cadavers to be displayed around the world, the Aug. 19
article titled "Bo Xilai's former mistress on display in Body Worlds: Boxun"
published on the Want China Times website is "false and defamatory."
Without identifying any offending passages or statements, the Aug. 29 email
accuses generally that the article "states or implies" that the Body Worlds
exhibition "included the plastinated body of Zhang Weijie, the former
mistress of Chinese politician Bo Xilai."
"That statement is completely false. The statement also defames and causes
serious injury to Dr von Hagens and Plastination Company, Inc," the email
added.
The article in question was a report on a piece uploaded by Boxun, which has
closely followed allegations related to the former Chongqing Communist party
chief Bo Xilai since February, when the chain of events that brought about
his downfall began. The focus of the Aug. 19 article was Boxun's observation
that Chinese netizens have speculated that the plastinated body of a pregnant
woman displayed at Body Worlds may belong to the missing anchorwoman.
The article also cited Boxun's allegation that Zhang was Bo's mistress in
1998 and disappeared after his wife Gu Kailai discovered that the TV
presenter was pregnant with Bo's child. It also reported that netizens have
speculated that Bo, as the then-mayor of Dalian, may have been the person who
approved the registration of Von Hagen's plastination company in the city in
1999, around the time of Zhang's disappearance.
While the Want China Times article highlights one of the many widely
circulated internet rumors relating to the Bo Xilai scandal, it at no time
suggests or implies that the rumors are true or that Dr Von Hagens or
Plastination Company were ever involved in any wrongdoing.
Various news outlets and blogs have also picked up on the Boxun piece,
including Taiwan's Apple Daily and ETtoday, the US-based World Journal, as
well as the English magazine site Goldsea.
According to Goldsea, which also received a similar letter from lawyers, Von
Hagens admitted during a 2010 interview that his exhibitions had once used
bodies from China but stopped after learning that they were "probably
executed prisoners." He was subsequently sued by Arnie Geller, the former
head of rival Premier Exhibitions, who claimed that van Hagen's comments
implied that Premier had used prisoners. Geller said all the bodies used his
exhibitions had died from natural causes.
Goldsea also reported that Von Hagens had denied allegations that he paid a
former plastination technician to lie about rival practices or fabricate
petitions to prevent competitors from opening their own exhibits.
The speculation of Chinese netizens arising out of the Bo Xilai scandal stems
largely from their fascination with Communist Party officials and the party's
tendency to deal with political controversies behind closed doors. Bo's
situation is regarded as particularly sensitive as he was a rising political
star destined for the upper echelons of power until his former police chief
Wang Lijun fled to the US consulate in Chengdu in February with apparent
evidence that Bo's wife had murdered British businessman Neil Heywood. Gu was
handed a suspended death sentence earlier this month after confessing to the
murder, while Bo reportedly remains under house arrest pending the outcome of
his investigation for unspecified "serious discipline violations."
References:
Zhang Weijie ???
Bo Xilai ???
Gu Kailai ???
Wang Lijun ???
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
--
Bye,
Willem-Jan Markerink
The desire to understand
is sometimes far less intelligent than
the inability to understand
<w.j.ma...@a1.nl>
[note: 'a-one' & 'en-el'!]
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