Wang Youcai
Wang Youcai(Chinese:Vương hữu tài;pinyin:Wáng Yǒucái,born 29 June 1966) is aChinese dissidentand was one of the prominent student leaders in theTiananmen Square protests of 1989.At the time he was graduate student at thePeking University,he was arrested in 1989 and sentenced to four years in 1991[1]for "conspiring to overthrow the Government of China".
He was released early, in November 1991, due to the help of former U.S. Secretary of StateJames Baker,who visited Beijing in 1991.
On June 25, 1998, he and his colleagues organized theChina Democracy Party,which was subsequently banned by theChinesegovernment. In December 1998 the Chinese government sentenced him to 11 years in prison forsubversion.He was released from prison and exiled in 2004 under international political pressure, especially from theUnited States.
Wang was a visiting scholar at Fairbank Center atHarvard University[2]for one year, and completed his master's degree at theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign[3]in 2006. He is a member of theWikiLeaksadvisory board.[4][5]He is one of the members of theChinese Constitutional Democratic Transition Researchand one of the members of theCoordinative Service Platform of China Democracy Party.On July 15, 2009, he became co-advisor of Overseas Supporters' Association of the China Democracy Party, and later became co-executive associate for Committee of Exiled members of the China Democracy Party on October 10, 2009.
He did his Ph.D. research on quark transversity at National Jefferson Laboratory in Newport News, Virginia from June 2007 to June 2010. He was awarded a Ph.D. degree in physics at theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaignin 2011. He worked atAmerican Expressin New York from February 2011 to December 2012. Then he joinedCitiand worked there from January 2, 2013 to June 20, 2022.
References
[edit]- ^Yardley, Jim (5 March 2004)."Leading Chinese Dissident Released From Prison".The New York Times.Retrieved22 May2021.
- ^"Tiananmen, 15 Years On".Human Rights Watch.Retrieved22 May2021.
- ^Wong, Grace (14 January 2018)."An Ode to China's Future: Former Reform Leader Wang Youcai Speaks".Medium.Retrieved22 May2021.
- ^"Exposed: Wikileaks' secrets".Wired UK.ISSN1357-0978.Retrieved13 March2022.
- ^"Wikileaks:Advisory Board - Wikileaks".22 November 2007.Archivedfrom the original on 22 November 2007.Retrieved13 February2023.
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