David Ji was born Ji Long Fen on Aug. 5, 1952 in Jintan, Jiangsu Province.

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Entrepreneur David Ji's Chinese accusers keep telling the world they've settled their commercial differences with him.

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David Ji has spent nearly a year in custody in China without being charged with a crime.

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Wherever guilt actually lies, the legal process involved in the David Ji case (p. 30) is glaringly suspect.

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By July of last year Ni, David Ji's ally, was forced out amid scrutiny from Changhong's bankers and the local press.

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David Ji is one of a dozen or so U.S. businessmen detained without due process in the past decade in China (see box, p. 148).

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David Ji is one of a dozen or so U.S. businessmen detained without due process in the past decade in China (see box, p. 34).

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David Ji is being investigated for cheating people with bad checks.

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The video is dull and grainy, but it shows real-life drama: A comeuppance for David Ji, an entrepreneur who built a billion-dollar business importing dirt-cheap DVD players from a booming China, where he was born, and selling them at Wal-Mart and Circuit City stores in the U.S., his adopted home for two decades.

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The video is dull and grainy, but it shows real-life drama: A comeuppance for David Ji, a celebrated U.S.-bred entrepreneur who built a billion-dollar business importing dirt-cheap DVD players from a booming China, where he was born, and selling them at Wal-Mart and Circuit City stores in the U.S., his adopted home for two decades.

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