Wang Dan
Wang Dan
(
Chinese
: 王丹) (born
February 26
,
1969
), a leader of the
Chinese democracy movement
, was one of the most visible of the student leaders in the
Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
. Then a freshman at the
Beijing University
, he was arrested and sentenced twice, in
1989
and
1995
, for conspiring to overthrow the
Communist Party of China
. He ultimately spent seven years in a
Liaoning
prison and was exiled in 1998 under international
political pressure
. He was flown to
New York
and completed his master's in East Asian history in 2001 at
Harvard University
. He is now earning a
Ph.D.
See also
List of Chinese dissidents
External links
Toronto Star: Wang Dan's visit to Toronto at 2004
TIMEasia: The Exile and the Entrepreneur
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