Xiao Qiang
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Xiao Qiang ( Chinese 蕭 強 / 萧 强 , Pinyin Xiāo Qiáng ; * around 1962 ) is a Chinese human rights activist . He is the director of the China Internet Project at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley .
Xiao studied physics at the Chinese University of Science and Technology and then studied astrophysics from 1986 to 1989 - Ph.D. -Program of the University of Notre Dame . He became a human rights activist after the Tiananmen massacre in 1989. From 1991 to 2002 he was managing director of the non-governmental organization Human Rights in China , and he is vice chairman of the international organization network World Movement for Democracy . He is also a weekly commentator for Radio Free Asia .
Xiao currently teaches on China and human rights, explores the confluence of information and communication technologies and China's social and political change, and he runs the China Digital Times news portal as part of the China Internet Project.
Xiao received the MacArthur Fellowship in 2001 , and in the spring of 2002 he was a visiting fellow at the Santa Fe Institute .
Web links
- Rock-n-Go , Xiao's weblog
- Biography ( Memento June 5, 2004 on the Internet Archive ) with MacArthur Fellows
- Champion of Democracy ( Memento from July 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), report
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Xiao Qiang |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chinese human rights activist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1962 |