Quote: “FOR most of the past 70 years Qiao Shuzhi’s 乔 树枝 family supported the Communist Party, and the party took good care of the family. Mr Qiao’s father, an underground member during the war against Japan * * * was rewarded with a building in the Haidian district of north-western Beijing. In 1953 he turned it into the Tianyi Guesthouse 天義客店 [that is what the stone plaque says, probably cast before characters were simplified], offering budget lodgings to travellers. Permission for the business was granted, in writing, by China’s police chief at the time [国务院副总理兼公安部长罗瑞卿. in 1953]. * * * Mr Qiao says he was abducted and held for 13 hours last December as the building was demolished