Wang Youcai
Wang Youcai (
Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. At the time he was graduate student at the Peking 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 State James Baker, who visited Beijing in 1991.
On June 25, 1998, he and his colleagues organized the
subversion. He was released from prison and exiled in 2004 under international political pressure, especially from the United States
.
Wang was a visiting scholar at Fairbank Center at
Coordinative 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 the
Citi
and worked there from January 2, 2013 to June 20, 2022.
References
- ^ Yardley, Jim (5 March 2004). "Leading Chinese Dissident Released From Prison". The New York Times. Retrieved 22 May 2021.
- ^ "Tiananmen, 15 Years On". Human Rights Watch. Retrieved 22 May 2021.
- ^ Wong, Grace (14 January 2018). "An Ode to China's Future: Former Reform Leader Wang Youcai Speaks". Medium. Retrieved 22 May 2021.
- ISSN 1357-0978. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
- ^ "Wikileaks:Advisory Board - Wikileaks". 22 November 2007. Archived from the original on 22 November 2007. Retrieved 13 February 2023.
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