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Civil Litigation,
International Law

Aug. 21, 2024

Stanford provides protection, CCP member's daughter testifies

Nanyang Li said she was committed to compiling her father's writings because he spoke highly of the Hoover Institution. Li Rui, who was close to Mao Zedong and later exiled, thought that such a collection of works would not be allowed to exist in China, Nanyang Li testified.

Taking the stand for the second day, the daughter of a senior Chinese Communist Party member fighting to archive her father's manuscripts and diaries at Stanford University told a federal judge on Tuesday that she wanted to be affiliated with the university for political protection. 

It was obvious that the Chinese government was closely watching her as she worked to transcribe her father Li Rui's writings, Nanyang Li testified, adding that she became a U.S. citizen this y...

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