Beijing: Chen Guangcheng, the blind Chinese dissident, is charging that New York University is kicking him out of a fellowship because of pressure from the Chinese government.The self-trained lawyer, who set off an international incident last year by taki

THE KEEPERS of the story can point to pieces of it lying, half-buried, all around us.A granite marker near a shoreline in Bellingham declares: "Chinese Deadline: No Chinese beyond this point, 1898 — 1903."

For 18-year-old Jonathan Chen, an immigrant to the US from Yantai, Shandong an internship is paving the way to what he hopes will be a chance to knock at the door of the inner circles of American politics.

America's civil rights campaigns have all had their leaders - Susan B. Anthony, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King and Gloria Steinem - to name but a few. But what kind of comparable leaders does the Chinese American community have?