Son of Fallen Chinese Official Enrolls at Columbia Law School
By EDWARD WONG and
New York Time Published: July 29, 2013
The youngest son of Bo Xilai, the former senior Communist Party official now awaiting a criminal trial, has enrolled at Columbia Law School and is expected to begin studies this fall, according to a family associate and a person from Beijing with high-level contacts.
The son, Bo Guagua, is a prominent figure in the third generation of an aristocratic Communist Party family. He earned an undergraduate degree from Oxford and a master’s degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, and he has been living in the United States since he completed that degree in May 2012. His exploits since his Oxford days have fascinated many Chinese, and photographs of him at parties with his arms draped around young women have circulated widely on the Internet. He was known to have driven around Cambridge, Mass., in a Porsche.
Several Harvard professors said he was serious about his studies there. Mr. Bo had been interested in pursuing a law degree in the United States even before the downfall of his father, who was removed from his position as party chief of the municipality of Chongqing in March 2012, as a scandal involving a dead British businessman unfolded. Last year, a Chinese court decided that Mr. Bo’s wife, Gu Kailai, would serve a suspended death sentence — equivalent to life in prison — for murdering the businessman, Neil Heywood.
Mr. Bo was put under house arrest in March 2012, after being dismissed from his Chongqing post, and he was later moved to a formal detention center. Last week, prosecutors in Jinan, the capital of Shandong Province, charged him with bribe-taking, corruption and abuse of power. The trial is expected to take place soon.
Bo Guagua has not made any public statements since the announcement of the charges. In September 2012, he released a brief statement that said, “The father I know is upright in his beliefs and devoted to duty.”
Mr. Bo did not immediately return an e-mailed request for comment on Monday.
It is unclear how Mr. Bo will pay for his three-year education at Columbia, which has one of the most expensive law schools in the United States. The law school’s Web site says tuition is $55,916 for the coming academic year, and total charges are $60,234 once other fees are included. Living costs are listed as an additional $22,561. It is also unclear how Mr. Bo paid for his Oxford and Harvard tuitions, though he said in a letter last year to The Harvard Crimson that the tuition and living expenses at those universities and at Harrow, an exclusive British boarding school that he attended, were paid for through scholarships and money that his mother had earned as a lawyer.
On Monday, a Chinese journalist, Vincent Ni, posted on Twitter a photograph of a Web page from Columbia that showed Mr. Bo’s e-mail address at the law school. Around the same time, the person in Beijing with high-level contacts, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, confirmed Mr. Bo’s enrollment at Columbia in an interview. The person said Mr. Bo had earlier explored getting a doctorate at Oxford.
Mr. Bo is the second son of Bo Xilai, who has another son, Li Wangzhi, a businessman, from his first marriage. Mr. Li graduated in 2003 with a master’s degree from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and was hired by Citigroup.
Last fall, the first wife, Li Danyu, said in an interview that Mr. Bo had suspected their son of poisoning Ms. Gu, who is Bo Xilai’s second wife and Bo Guagua’s mother. One of Ms. Gu’s lawyers confirmed that Ms. Gu believed that she had been poisoned.
No date has been announced for the trial of Bo Xilai, and it is unclear whether Bo Guagua will try to attend. The court is expected to deliver a verdict that has already been determined by party leaders. Political analysts said Mr. Bo could receive anything from a 15- or 20-year prison sentence to a suspended death sentence.
A version of this article appeared in print on July 30, 2013, on page A6 of the New York edition with the headline: China: Fallen Official’s Son Enrolls at Columbia Law.
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哥大学生信息系统，显示薄瓜瓜所在学院、学生编号及其个人邮箱
根据美国哥伦比亚大学（Columbia University）网上学籍信息显示，一位名叫“Bo Guagua”的学生在该校法学院法律系注册就读。考虑到这一名字重名的可能性很小，外界纷纷猜测，此人即为中共前重庆市委书记、前政治局委员薄熙来之 子。但哥伦比亚大学校方并未确认薄瓜瓜已在该校注册就读。
到目前为止，薄熙来之子薄瓜瓜本人并未对此作出回应。
分析人士认为，鉴于薄瓜瓜母亲薄谷开来身陷囹圄，其父薄熙来又面临审判，按照一般人的逻辑，薄瓜瓜在国外继续求学是个最好的选择，也可以在国外更好的环境中打磨自己的学业。分析人士人也称，可以推论的是，薄熙来与薄谷开来的海外资产需要有人打理。
据称，哥大法学院是美国学费最为昂贵的法学院，2013-2014学年的学费为57,838美元，该学院毕业生毕业时的平均贷款为141,607美元。据薄瓜瓜可能的同学称，薄瓜瓜有家族的财力为支持，这在哥大并非罕见之事。
此前有报道称，薄熙来为保护其子已经与中共达成协议。
7月25日，据大陆官媒新华社消息，原政治局委员、重庆市委书记薄熙来涉嫌受贿、贪污、滥用职权犯罪一案，“经依法指定管辖，今日已由山东省济南市人民检察院向济南市中级人民法院提起公诉”，“依法应当以受贿罪、贪污罪、滥用职权罪追究刑事责任，并予以数罪并罚”。
有分析人士认为，从起诉书上“数罪并罚”之类的请求，检方有求重判之意。薄熙来有可能面临无期徒刑、死缓甚至是死刑。也有媒体分析认为，薄熙来有可能获刑17年或18年。
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