Wang Dan was a twenty year-old student at Beijing University when he came to international attention as one of the leaders of the pro-democracy student demonstrations in Beijing's Tian'anmen Square in the spring of 1989. Following the violent suppression of the demonstrations on June 4, Mr. Wang headed the Chinese government's most-wanted list. He was arrested and sentenced to four years in prison. Mr. Wang was released from prison in 1993, but was detained in 1995. international.ucla.edu
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Since the Democratic Progressive Party ( ) assumed power, Wei Jingsheng ( ) was ignored by Taiwan, while Wang Dan ( ) and Cho Changqing ( ) got lucky and received large amounts of funds. www.zonaeuropa.com/20050912_3.htm
Mr. Wang said the leaders of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) need to compromise and become democratic if a worsening of social unrest is to be averted. But, he doesn't see that happening. "I don't see any genuine political reform in China today," said en.epochtimes.com/news/7-12-9/62721.html
Today, Wang is the author of 17 books about his experiences, and he's working on his Ph.D. at Harvard University. But Wang's odyssey from Beijing to Boston has been a painful journey that included years of incarceration in China. Wang was a history stud www.cnn.com/2005/US/10/05/cnn25.wang.tan/index.html
Wang Dan , the Beijing University undergraduate who served as co-leader of the 1989 pro-democracy movement, will speak at Harvard today at 12:15 p.m. Wang, 29, was arrested in June 1989, several weeks after the Chinese army stormed into Tiananmen Square www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/1998/04.30/WangDanOfChinaT.html
Wang Dan 's leadership role in Tiananmen Square earned him the top spot on China's list of "21 Most Wanted Beijing Student Leaders." It also earned the soft-spoken history major with the bullhorn and large round eyeglasses a prison sentence of four years www.hrw.org/campaigns/china/scholars/t15/wangdan.htm
