Wang Dan (dissident)
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26 February 1969 Beijing, People's Republic of China |
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Peking University Harvard University |
| Employer | National Tsing Hua University |
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| Chinese | 王丹 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Hanyu Pinyin | Wáng Dān |
| IPA | [wǎŋ tán] |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | Wòhng Dāan |
| IPA | [wɐ̏ŋ táːn] |
| Jyutping | wong4 daan1 |
Wang Dan (born February 26, 1969) is a leader of the Chinese democracy movement, was one of the most visible of the student leaders in the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Wang holds a Ph.D. in history from Harvard University. From August 2009 to February 2010, Wang taught cross-strait history at Taiwan's National Chengchi University, as a visiting scholar. He later taught at National Tsing Hua University. Besides conducting research on related topics, Wang is still active in promoting democracy and freedom for China. He travels the world to garner support from overseas Chinese communities as well as from the general public at large.
Wang Dan is a friend of fellow activists Wang Juntao and Liu Gang.
Wang Dan was born in 1969. He was a politically active student at the Peking University department of history, organizing "Democracy Salons" at his school. When he participated in the student movement that led to the 1989 peaceful protest, he joined the movement's organizing body as the representative from Peking University. As a result, after the Tiananmen Square protests, he immediately became the "most wanted" on the list of 21 fugitives issued. Wang went into hiding but was arrested on July 2 the same year, and sentenced to four years imprisonment in 1991. After being released on parole in 1993, he continued to write publicly (to publications outside of mainland China) and was re-arrested in 1995 for conspiring to overthrow the Communist Party of China and was sentenced in 1996 to 11 years. However he was released early and exiled to the United States of America (see below).
Wang resumed his university studies, starting school at Harvard University in 1998 and completing his master's in East Asian history in 2001 and a Ph.D. in 2008. He also performed research on the development of democracy in Taiwan at Oxford University in 2009. He is currently the chairman of the Chinese Constitutional Reform Association.
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