Bao Zunxin

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Bao Zunxin ( Chinese  包 遵 信 , Pinyin Bāo Zūnxìn , W.-G. Pao Tsun-hsin ) ( September 1937 - October 28, 2007 ) was a Chinese historian and dissident who, due to his participation in the protests at the Tiananmen Place was imprisoned.

biography

Bao graduated from Beijing University in 1964 . He worked in the History Faculty of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and taught at Beijing Normal University .

Bao supported the pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square in 1989. He signed a petition postulating that China was still ruled by an emperor. The petition used the term emperor as a synonym for the head of the Chinese Communist Party , Deng Xiaoping .

Following the Tiananmen Square massacre , Bao was arrested and charged with counter-revolutionary propaganda and incitement . For supporting the pro-democracy movement, Bao was sentenced to five years in prison, from which he served three and a half years until his release in 1992.

Bao died of a cerebral haemorrhage on October 28, 2007, at the age of 70.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g http://www.legacy.com/Obituaries.asp?Page=APStory&Id=13592 Associated Press , October 29, 2007
  2. ↑ China Charges 8 Dissidents In 1989 Tiananmen Protests , The New York Times, January 16, 1991.
  3. ↑ Chinese Dissident Freed from Prison , The New York Times, November 26, 1992 (accessed April 19, 2013).
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Bao is the family name here, Zunxin is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Bao, Zunxin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 包 遵 信; Bāo, Zūnxìn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese historian and dissident
DATE OF BIRTH September 1937
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 2007