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Over the weekend, Northern Taiwan Society vice president Chin Heng-wei (金恆煒) recently accused Ma Ying-jeou's wife, Chow Mei-ching (周美青), of stealing Chinese-language newspapers out of the Harvard library while she was a student there.

Chin Heng-wei said that after the theft had been reported to the police, the director of the library's Chinese department, Wu Wen-jin (吳文津), wrote a letter to Chow asking her to return the papers.

However, Wu Wen-jin himself appeared in an interview on SET-TV on Sunday night to deny having ever written such a letter. Chow is threatening to sue Chin over it.

This appears to have been a rather sloppy smear attempt at this point, even if it was not coordinated fully by the Hsieh campaign.