Talk:List of Chinese dissidents

message: *Yan Jiaqi, 53. Former aide to ousted party chief Zhao Ziyang. Escaped from China after June 1989. In New York.
*Chen Yizi, 55. Former director of the Chinese Research Institute for Reform of the Economic Structure in Beijing. Escaped after June 1989. In Princeton, New Jersey.
*Wan Runnan, 49. Former chief executive officer of the Stone Computer Corp in Beijing. Escaped after June 1989. In France.
*Su Xiaokang, 46. Writer, author of controversial TV series River Elegy. Escaped after June 1989. In Princeton, New Jersey.
*Wu'er Kaixi, 27. Former student leader who escaped after June 1989. In San Francisco.
*Chai Ling, 29. Former student leader who escaped to the US after June 1989. In Boston.
*Liang Qingtun, 26. Former student leader who escaped after June 1989. In San Francisco.
*Feng Congde, 28. Former student leader who escaped after June 1989. In France.
*Wang Chaohua, 43. Former student leader who escaped after June 1989. Studying in Los Angeles.
*Zhang Zhiqing, 31. Former student leader, still on Beijing's most wanted list. Whereabouts unknown since June 1989.
*Zhang Boli, 37. Former student leader who escaped after June 1989. In Washington.
*Li Lu, 29. Former student leader who escaped after June 1989. Studying in New York.
*Yue Wu, 49. Former factory director in Shanxi, China. Involved with organising workers during the 1989 movement. In France.
*Zhang Gang, 46. Former deputy director of public relations at the Chinese Research Institute for Reform of the Economic Structure. Escaped after June 1989. In New York.
*Yuan Zhiming, 40. Writer. Escaped after June 1989. In Mississippi.
*Wang Runsheng, 40. Former researcher with the Institute of Politics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Escaped after June 1989. In France.
*Chen Xuanliang, 48. Former teacher of philosophy at the Chinese College of Politics. Escaped after June 1989. In France.
*Zheng Yi, 46. Writer. In hiding for three years after June 1989. Escaped in 1992. Now in Princeton, New Jersey.
*Lu Jinghua, 33. Former merchant who became involved in the Beijing Workers' Autonomous Federation in 1989. Now in New York. Attempted to return to Beijing in June 1993 but was refused entry and sent back to US.
*Robert Wu, 22. Law Student at Monash University who wrote a letter to the Chinese President insisting on more human rights for Chinese citizens. The government has since released a statement to the press denying the said allegations and has called on the people of china to unite and crush traitors. Currently residing in Melbourne, Australia, Robert is likely to be sentenced to 12 years under Chinese law. Robert has been named in the 2008 list of Beijing's Dissident Blacklist by the Central Committee of the People’s Republic of China   —Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.242.36.178 (talk) 07:02, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: To be arrested on entry to China

message: Here's a source; unfortunately it's not an internet source.
*Bad Elements: Chinese Rebels from Los Angeles to Beijing by Ian Buruma
I have the book and read through it myself.  It doesn't give you a listing of dissidents, but it covers some of the more prominent dissidents in terms of their lives and their opinions.  The book sometimes reads a little bias, but it does profile the bigger names in the Chinese dissident community.  Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 17:04, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Could you do the page a favour and list those which it does confirm and in what respect? John Smith's 17:08, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, but I cannot do it immediately at the moment.  And also, correction - the book does give a listing of dissidents in the form of a glossary in the back.  Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 17:14, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Online access isn't necessary, as long as you are accurate about who is listed. Just give a complete citation for the book, and use a short cite citing the page number for each listing. - Crockspot 19:33, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Here's a source 

message: Here is what I can confirm, of the list above, from Ian Buruma's book.  This is just the information listed at the back of the book concerning the statuses and whereabouts of these people, in a section called Glossary of Names.  There may be other information about these people's statuses in the chapters of the book itself to verify what I can't find in the Glossary of Names, but I'd have to go through the book again.  My edition of the book was published in 2002, so it's important to note that the statuses of some of these people may be different by now.  In fact I know some of the information is now outdated.
*Bao Tong - Can't confirm what years he was imprisoned, but the book says he's "still under house arrest in Beijing".
*Fang Lizhi - Went to the US in 1991.  Now a professor at University of Arizona.
*Ding Zilin - Only says he's a professor at Beijing University.
*Wang Dan - Easy one.  I'm sure you can find plenty of other sources to confirm his status, too.  The book says he spent 7 years in prison and went to the US afterwards.
*Wei Jingsheng - Again an easy one, and really quite an inspiration, too.  Sentenced to prison twice for a total of 29 years.  Went to the US in 1997.
*Xiao Qiang - Runs the Human Rights in China organisation in NYC.
*Wu'er Kaixi - Escaped after June 4th.  Spent time in Paris and the US.  Lives in Taiwan.
*Yan Jiaqi - Forced to flee after June 4th.  Lives in NYC.
*Wang Bingzhang - Book doesn't specifically say where he is, but it says that he is the "co-founder in the US of the China Democracy Party".
*Su Xiaokang - Fled after June 4th.  Lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
*Chai Ling - Should be another easy one to verify as she was basically the voice of the student movement.  Escaped to Hong Kong.  Got an M.A. at Princeton, then an M.B.A. at Harvard.  Now a businesswoman.
*Wang Chaohua - Escaped after June 4th.  Ph.D. student in modern Chinese literature at UCLA.
*Li Lu - Fled to the US.  Studied at Columbia.  Runs an investment business in New York.
*Harry Wu - 19 years in forced labour camp.  Then went to the US.
*Liu Qing - "Many years" in prison.  Went to the US.
That is all.  This Glossary of Names is found in pages 345-349.  Here's the cite:
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Suggestion for this article - editors may want to note in the heading that this list is specifically related to the PRC.  "Chinese dissidents" could also mean dissidents from Taiwan and Singapore - yes, there are plenty of those, too - and this is something Buruma's book also covers.  Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 06:36, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference from Ian Buruma's book 

message: What is the point of the age listed next to the people's names? Wouldn't we have to go through and update the age every year? HanBoN (talk) 05:13, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. Plus ages are calculated differently depending on where you are. We should either have only the birth years of people or nothing at all. L talk 09:08, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ages 

message: Anyone notice how the link to her name points to an entirely different person with the same name? I'd fix it myself if I knew how, but I just thought it'd perhaps be a good idea to add a disambiguation page or something. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Shuxian  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.119.35.246 (talk) 08:01, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Dr.Fang Li Zhi's wife Li Shuxian 

message: Could someone take the time to add Li Zehou to this list? i dont have the precise dates, and i tend to ruin these charts when i edit them.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 17:03, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Addition

message: Should Ai Weiwei be added to the list? His arrest was listed on the Main Page "In the news" section. 2011-04-08. — Loadmaster (talk) 16:30, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm somewhat confused by the 'dissident' status as something formal or self-declared, or just resulting from being a critic and getting in trouble for it.  Weiwei was/is a prominent critic of corruption in the government, which seems to qualify by my definition.  I'm going to add him and see if others have a different opinion. Ocaasi c 03:40, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ai Weiwei 

message: What is the criteria for inclusion on this list?  There are thousands of documented prisoners of conscience in China (and thousands more whose cases are not widely documented). See here for an incomplete list. In light of this, is seems prudent to clarify how we should measure notability.  Do they need to have a certain number of human rights or news reports written about them, for instance?Homunculus (duihua) 03:25, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Criteria for inclusion  

message: This list is interesting but for Chinese people pinyin isn't sufficient. Add a column with their Chinese name (in characters)! Thanks.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.49.68.162 (talk) 02:10, 8 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: three yrs later still no action. weirdHappy  monsoon day 17:47, 13 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Need Chinese Names 

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message: Chinese dissidents are not only rightists or anti-communists, but also leftists, Maoists, and other fundemental communist or Marxist factions! We should add them in this article!--JohnGao (talk) 01:33, 28 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  We should add [[leftists]] in this article!