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Wei Jingsheng

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Wei Jingsheng (born 20 May 1950, Beijing) is a Chinese human rights activist known for his involvement in the Chinese democracy movement. [1]

54 relations: Beijing Spring, Big-character poster, Center for Public Leadership, Charter 08, Chinese democracy movement, Choekyi Gyaltsen, 10th Panchen Lama, Democracy Wall, Deng Xiaoping, Don DeLillo, Fang Lizhi, Four Modernizations, High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China, History of Beijing, Human rights in China, Index of China-related articles (M–Z), Joe Chung, Journal of International Affairs, Kevin Rudd, Klaus Kinkel, List of Chinese dissidents, List of novelists by nationality, List of people who have benefited from United States immigration laws, List of political dissidents, Liu Jingsheng, Liu Xiaobo, Memorials for the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, Message in a bottle, Moving the Mountain (1994 film), November 16, Olof Palme Prize, Parole, Political offences in China, Popular democracy, Protest and dissent in China, Public comment, Qincheng Prison, Red China Blues, Revolutionary Communist Party of China, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award, Robert L. Bernstein, Scar literature, Sino-Vietnamese War, Tang Yijie, The Fifth Modernization, Tibetan Freedom Concert, Transnational Radical Party, Tuidang movement, Wang Ruowang, Wei (surname), ..., Xidan, Yu Dongyue, 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, 24th anniversary of Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Expand index (4 more) »

Beijing Spring

The Beijing Spring refers to a brief period of political liberalization in the People's Republic of China (PRC) which occurred in 1978 and 1979.

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Big-character poster

Big-character posters are handwritten, wall-mounted posters using large-sized Chinese characters, used as a means of protest, propaganda, and popular communication.

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Center for Public Leadership

The Center for Public Leadership is an academic research center that provides teaching, research and training in the practical skills of leadership for people in government, nonprofits, and business.

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Charter 08

Charter 08 is a manifesto initially signed by 303 Chinese intellectuals and human rights activists.

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Chinese democracy movement

The Chinese democracy movement, abbreviated as Minyun, refers to a series of loosely organized political movements in the People's Republic of China against the continued one-party rule by the Communist Party.

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Choekyi Gyaltsen, 10th Panchen Lama

Lobsang Trinley Lhündrub Chökyi Gyaltsen (19 February 1938 – 28 January 1989) was the tenth Panchen Lama of the Gelug School of Tibetan Buddhism.

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Democracy Wall

During the November 1978 to December 1979, thousands of people put up "big character posters" on a long brick wall of Xidan Street, Xicheng District of Beijing, to protest about the political and social issues of China.

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Deng Xiaoping

Deng Xiaoping (22 August 1904 – 19 February 1997), courtesy name Xixian (希贤), was a Chinese politician.

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Don DeLillo

Donald Richard "Don" DeLillo (born November 20, 1936) is an American novelist, playwright and essayist.

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Fang Lizhi

Fang Lizhi (February 12, 1936 – April 6, 2012) was a Chinese astrophysicist, vice-president of the University of Science and Technology of China, and activist whose liberal ideas inspired the pro-democracy student movement of 1986–87 and, finally, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.

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Four Modernizations

The Four Modernizations were goals first set forth by Deng Xiaoping to strengthen the fields of agriculture, industry, national defense, and science and technology in China.

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High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China

The High School Affiliated to Renmin University Of China (Pinyin: Zhōngguó Rénmín Dàxué Fùshŭ Zhōngxué), colloquially Rendafuzhong abbreviated to RDFZ, is the affiliated high school of Renmin University of China, and is a prestigious high school in Beijing.

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History of Beijing

The city of Beijing has a long and rich history that dates back over 3,000 years.

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Human rights in China

Human rights in China is a highly contested topic, especially for the fundamental human rights periodically reviewed by the United Nations Human Rights Committee, on which the government of the People's Republic of China and various foreign governments and human rights organizations have often disagreed.

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Index of China-related articles (M–Z)

The following is a breakdown of the list of China-related topics.

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Joe Chung

Joe Chung (born 1960s) is a writer from Hong Kong, who lives in Norway.

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Journal of International Affairs

The Journal of International Affairs is a leading foreign affairs journal edited by the graduate students at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.

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Kevin Rudd

Kevin Michael Rudd (born 21 September 1957) is a former Australian politician who was the 26th Prime Minister of Australia, serving from December 2007 to June 2010 and again from June to September 2013.

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Klaus Kinkel

Klaus Kinkel (born 17 December 1936) is a German civil servant, lawyer, and politician of the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP).

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List of Chinese dissidents

This list consists of these activists who are known as Chinese dissidents.

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List of novelists by nationality

Well-known authors of novels, listed by country: See also: Lists of authors, List of poets, List of playwrights, List of short story authors.

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List of people who have benefited from United States immigration laws

List of notable beneficiaries of enacted immigration/nationality-related United States Private Bills/Laws, signed into law.

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List of political dissidents

Political dissidents are people who question and criticize state policy or the 'dominate narrative' which is broadcast by mainstream media and accepted by the majority of the population.

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Liu Jingsheng

Liu Jingsheng (born c.1950) is a Chinese political opposition activist and a former co-editor of Tansuo (Explorations), a journal he founded in the late 1970s with Wei Jingsheng.

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Liu Xiaobo

Liu Xiaobo (刘晓波, 28 December 1955 – 13 July 2017) was a Chinese writer, literary critic, human rights activist, philosopher and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who called for political reforms and was involved in campaigns to end communist one-party rule in China.

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Memorials for the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989

In the days following the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, many memorials and vigils were held around the world.

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Message in a bottle

A message in a bottle is a form of communication in which a printed, typed, or handwritten message is sealed in a container (typically a bottle) and released into a conveyance medium (typically a body of water).

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Moving the Mountain (1994 film)

Moving the Mountain is a 1994 feature documentary directed by Michael Apted and produced by Trudie Styler, with cinematography by Maryse Alberti and music by Liu Sola.

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November 16

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Olof Palme Prize

The Olof Palme Prize is an annual prize awarded for an outstanding achievement in the spirit of Olof Palme.

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Parole

Parole is a temporary release of a prisoner who agrees to certain conditions before the completion of the maximum sentence period, originating from the French parole ("voice, spoken words").

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Political offences in China

This is a list of political offences in China.

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Popular democracy

Popular democracy is a notion of direct democracy based on referendums and other devices of empowerment and concretization of popular will.

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Protest and dissent in China

In spite of restrictions on freedom of association and of speech, a wide variety of protests and dissident movements have proliferated in China, particularly in the decades since the death of Mao Zedong.

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Public comment

Public comment is a specific term of art used by various government agencies in the United States, a constitutional democratic republic, in several circumstances.

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Qincheng Prison

Qincheng Prison is a maximum-security prison located in the Changping District, Beijing in the People's Republic of China, near Xiaotangshan.

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Red China Blues

Red China Blues: My Long March from Mao to Now is a 1996 book by Chinese-Canadian journalist Jan Wong.

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Revolutionary Communist Party of China

The Revolutionary Communist Party of China (RCP) is a Trotskyist political party in China.

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Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights

Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights (formerly the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights, or RFK Center) is a human rights advocacy organization, a nonprofit charitable organization that works to realize Senator Robert F. Kennedy's dream of a peaceful and just world by advancing human rights.

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Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award

The Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award was created by the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial in 1984, now known as the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights to honour individuals around the world who show courage and have made a significant contribution to human rights in their country.

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Robert L. Bernstein

Robert L. Bernstein is an American publisher and human rights activist.

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Scar literature

Scar literature or literature of the wounded is a genre of Chinese literature which emerged in the late 1970s, soon after the death of Mao Zedong, portraying the sufferings of cadres and intellectuals during the tragic experiences of the Cultural Revolution and the rule of the Gang of Four.

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Sino-Vietnamese War

The Sino-Vietnamese War (Chiến tranh biên giới Việt-Trung), also known as the Third Indochina War, was a brief border war fought between the People's Republic of China and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in early 1979.

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Tang Yijie

Tang Yijie (16 February 1927 − 9 September 2014) was a Chinese scholar and professor at Peking University, who has been described as China's top scholar on philosophy and Chinese studies.

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The Fifth Modernization

"The Fifth Modernization" is an essay by human rights activist Wei Jingsheng, originally begun as a signed wall poster placed on the Democracy Wall in Beijing on December 5, 1978.

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Tibetan Freedom Concert

Tibetan Freedom Concert is the name given to a series of rock festivals held in North America, Europe and Asia from 1996 onwards to support the cause of Tibetan independence.

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Transnational Radical Party

The Transnational Radical Party (TRP), whose official name is Nonviolent Radical Party, Transnational and Transparty (NRPTT), is a political association of citizens, members of parliament and members of government of various national and political backgrounds who intend to adopt nonviolent means to create an effective body of international law with respect for individuals, human, civil and political rights, as well as the affirmation of democracy and political freedom in the world.

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Tuidang movement

The Tuidang movement (退黨運動/退党运动; Tuìdǎng yùndòng) is a Chinese dissident phenomenon that began in late 2004.

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Wang Ruowang

Wang Ruowang (February 4, 1918 – December 19, 2001) was a Chinese author and dissident who was imprisoned various times for political reasons by both the Kuomintang and the Communist government of China for advocating reform and liberalization.

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Wei (surname)

Wei (魏, 韋, 衛, 尉, 隗) is a Chinese surname.

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Xidan

Xidan (Chinese: 西单; Pinyin: Xīdān) is a major traditional commercial area in Beijing, China.

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Yu Dongyue

Yu Dongyue (Hanyu Pinyin: Yù Dōngyuè) was born in Liuyang, a city in Hunan province of China on December 4, 1964.

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2010 Nobel Peace Prize

The 2010 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to imprisoned Chinese human rights activist "for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China".

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24th anniversary of Tiananmen Square protests of 1989

The 24th anniversary of Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 took place in China and internationally around 4 June 2013.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wei_Jingsheng

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