WASHINGTON — In effect, they are hostages and political exiles marooned on a tiny American island amid a churning Chinese ocean. American diplomats have privately dubbed them “the guests,” or sometimes, “the furniture.”
He is China’s leading dissident, Fang Lizhi, and she is his wife, Li Shuxian. And they’ve spent the last year, since soon after the bloodletting around Tian An Men Square last June, in the American Embassy in Beijing, waiting for statesmen to negotiate their future.
Fang dispatches frequent letters to his friends and relatives overseas from his temporary home.
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