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Poet bristles at travel ban
Academics are outraged China has forbidden an esteemed Beijing professor from attending a US conference. A literature professor is the latest person to run afoul of China's Government and has been denied permission to travel to a prominent academic conference in the United States. Cui Weiping had her Chinese passport, entry visa and airplane ticket to Philadelphia in hand when, she said, officials at the Beijing Film Academy where she works called her in and told her to cancel the trip. Though they gave reasons for the denial - she has classes to teach, her conference panel was not related to her academic discipline - those were excuses, she said.