Body Worlds Exhibit Thought to Be Former Bo Mistress
Zhang Weijie was a Dalian TV news anchor rumored to have been Bo Xilai's mistress during his term as Dalian mayor. Boxun speculates that her pregnant body may have been plastinated into a Body World exhibit.
A pregnant woman who has been plastinated and preserved for display as a Body Worlds exhibit is most likely the body of Zhang Weijie, a former Bo Xilai mistress who mysteriously vanished after challenging Gu Kailai, according to the US-based Chinese-language news site Boxun.
Zhang, a news anchor of Dalian TV, was reputedly the mistress of Bo Xilai while he was mayor of Dalian. After becoming pregnant Zhang openly challenged Bo’s wife Gu Kailai. Gu is believed to have used China’s national and public security forces to pressure Zhang into leaving her job. Zhang then began a petition drive against Gu Kailai until degenerating into a hysterical state. Zhang was then reportedly secretly detained by security officials in the Dalian Nanshan Hotel. She attempted suicide several times before vanishing.
The skull shape and other features of the pregnant woman’s body at the Body World’s exhibit is said to resemble those of Zhang. Also, the nearly mature fetus inside the pregnant woman suggests the woman had been been the victim of an officially sanctioned execution.
The bodies displayed by Body World were prepared by Von Hagens Plastination Company in Dalian. Some netizens have suggested that Bo himself may have approved’s the company’s registration in 1999 while mayor of Dalian. All the bodies used for the exhibit are said to be from Dalian. Gunther von Hagens, the company’s founder, is rumored to have special connection with Bo.
Gunther’s son Rurik von Hagens said their family has neither private nor business relations with Bo. Von Hagens accepted a visiting professorship at Dalian Medical University in China in 1996. He founded the Von Hagens Dalian Plastination Ltd. in Dalian in 2001. In 2004, Dr. von Hagens began a visiting professorship at the New York University College of Dentistry. He is currently in the process of designing the first anatomy curriculum in the United States that will use plastinated specimens in lieu of dissection.
Von Hagens’s company was set up in Dalian because China has no laws banning the processing and exporting of corpses, Boxun speculates. Consequently, all the bodies in Body Worlds are Chinese. The company’s standard procedures call for the facial characteristics of the bodies to be altered to prevent them from being identified, according to Boxun.
Boxun’s speculation as to the link between the pregnant woman exhibit and Bo’s former mistress suggests the extent of the rumors of Bo’s — as well as Gu’s — unsavory dealings while he was mayor of Dalian. Rumors had also suggested that he had profited from allowing prisoners to be executed so their organs could be harvested fresh for wealthy foreign patients awaiting transplants.
Zhang Weijie, the female host of Dalian TV's "Sun Rain", truly believed that Bo Xilai wanted to divorce Gu Kailai and marry her. She had no scruples about high-profile contacts with Bo and got pregnant. Later, she was retaliated by Gu and was kicked out of the Dalian TV station. Zhang went to Beijing to petition once, and Bo was furious. He believed that this woman would affect his career, so he let Gu Lai deal with it. So there was a rumor that the person in the "Hagens Human Specimen Exhibition" who was 8 months pregnant was Zhang Weijie. If true, this baby is Bo’s son
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