The highest-profile example is blind lawyer Chen Guangcheng, who escaped last year from house arrest to the U.S. Embassy in Beijing and then toNewYork.
In 1997, aged 32, she moved back toBeijing from NewYork, joining a steady trickle of returnees (the Chinese call them hai gui or sea-turtles): young, western-educated professionals keen to apply their new skills in their own country, and to get rich.