Xiong Yan

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Xiong Yan in US Army uniform

Xiong Yan (Chinese: 熊 焱; born September 1, 1964 in Shuangfeng , People's Republic of China ) is a naturalized American born in China . He was a dissident who participated in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests . Xiong Yan studied at Beijing University Law School from 1986 to 1989 . He came to the United States of America as a political refugee in 1992 and later became a chaplain in the United States Army and served in Iraq .

Xiong Yan is the author of three books and has six degrees .

dissident

Xiong Yan grew up in Hunan and went to Beijing to study postgraduate studies at Beijing University. Xiong was a probationary member of the Chinese Communist Party . While studying at Beijing University, Xiong was a member of Caodi Salon, a democracy movement organized by Liu Gang .

Xiong was a student leader during the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989. He once called himself "General Commander". After the crackdown on Tiananmen Square, also known as Tiananmen Square, Xiong was placed on China's "Most Wanted" list. Xiong was arrested in Datong in late June 1989 and taken back to Beijing under the guard of hundreds of armed soldiers. He was then detained in Qincheng Prison for 19 months without being charged with any crime.

After Xiong's release, his academic credentials were revoked and he was not given an ID card. During this time he converted to Christianity in China after meeting a member of a submerged Chinese house church . Xiong fled mainland China in May 1992 . After receiving political asylum , he moved to the United States in June 1992 , where he initially lived in the metropolis of Los Angeles . Xiong remains a refugee from mainland China.

Leaving China

Xiong Yan moved to Boston , where he studied American English at Harvard University and was accepted by Harvard Divinity School , but was refused admission. Xiong later attended Gordon-Conwell Theological College, where he received a doctorate. In 2005, he announced in the Epoch Times newspaper that he had withdrawn his membership in the Chinese Communist Party. Xiong is still active in the China democracy movement abroad. In 2009, he traveled to Hong Kong to attend a candlelight vigil on the June 4th anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown. It was estimated that 150 thousand people attended the vigil. This marked the first time, in 17 years, that Xiong had returned to China since 1992. In 2010, Chai Ling and Xiong were committee members at a discussion of China's one-child policy at the Rayburn House office building in Washington, DC in 2015, after Xiong learned that his mother's health was deteriorating, he appealed to mainland China for him to allow them to come back to see her before she dies.

military service

Xiong Yan joined the United States Army. In 1999 he was a sergeant in the Army Reservists. He was working on his second bachelor's degree and graduated from the University of North Carolina . After eight years of service with the Army Reservists, Xiong received the rank of officer in 2003. He serves as the Protestant chaplain of the Evangelical Church Alliance. In 2010, Xiong was Kaplan at the Warrant Officer Career College in Fort Rucker, Alabama , USA. In 2014, Xiong was stationed at Fort Bliss .

Xiong served on two missions in Iraq. He considered, if he was to retire from the army, running as a candidate for Congress.

Private

Xiong Yan is married to Qian Liyun. She was arrested with Shen Tong in 1992 for working with the Democracy for China Fund. Both were released and sent to the United States. In the United States, Liyun also joined the US Army.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Report to Congress Concerning Extension of Waiver Authority for the People's Republic of China , The Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, US Government Publishing Office, May 28, 1993, accessed August 18, 2017
  2. ^ A b c C. Todd Lopez, Chaplain remembers Tiananmen Square on Anniversary , Army News Service, United States Army, June 4, 2010, accessed August 18, 2017
  3. ^ A b Stacy Mosher, Tiananmen's Most Wanted — Where Are They Now? , Human Rights in China, May 26, 2004, accessed August 18, 2017
  4. ↑ a b Chaplain (Major) Xiong Yan's Bio (PDF) , Committee Repository, United States House of Representatives, May 30, 2014, accessed August 18, 2017
  5. ↑ a b c d Penelope McMillan, Chinese Dissident Holds Fast to Ideals: Protest: Despite beatings and imprisonment, student leader seeking asylum in US remains committed to China's pro-democracy movement , Los Angeles Times, June 29, 1992, accessed June 18, 1992. August 2017
  6. ↑ a b Andrew Jacobs, Tiananmen's Most Wanted , New York Times, June 3, 2014, A graduate student at Peking University and a probationary member of the Communist Party in 1989, Mr. Xiong was among those charged with negotiating with the government accessed on August 18, 2017
  7. ↑ Dingxin Zhao, The Power of Tiananmen: State – Society Relations and the 1989 Beijing Student Movement , University of Chicago Press, p. 137, December 5, 2008, ISBN 978-0-226-98262-5 , accessed August 18 2017
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  9. ↑ Tiananmen, 15 Years On , Human Rights Watch, 2004. He served two years in the US Army, 1994–1996, before entering a Divinity School doctoral program, accessed August 18, 2017
  10. ^ A b Repression in China Since June 4, 1989: Cumulative Data , An Asia Watch Report, Human Rights Watch, October 1990, p. 36, ISBN 978-0-929692-74-6 , accessed August 18, 2017
  11. ↑ Record Turnout At Hong Kong Tiananmen Vigil , Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, Reuters, June 4, 2009, "Hong Kong is part of China and can affect China more than any other country, more than any other place," said Xiong. who was one of 21 people listed on Beijing's "Most Wanted" list in 1989, accessed August 18, 2017
  12. ^ Zhang Boli, Escape from China: The Long Journey From Tiananmen to Freedom , Simon and Schuster, p. 55, May 27, 2003, ISBN 978-0-7434-3161-3 . They televised the story that he was escorted back to Beijing. Hundreds of helmeted soldiers, carrying rifles and ammunition, appeared to be shadowed by this heroic man as he fearlessly stepped off the train, accessed on August 18, 2017
  13. ↑ a b Simon Beck, Concern grows over secret ban; Rights chief puts exiles on agenda , South China Morning Post, Free China Movement, Jan. 8, 1995, Xiong Yan, 31, former student leader. Arrested in Beijing and imprisoned for two years before leaving China in 1992. Now in the US Army. Chinese Freedom and Democracy Party Chairman, accessed August 18, 2017
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  16. ↑ a b Miranda Leitsinger, One of Tiananmen's 'most wanted' returns to China , CNN, United States, June 4, 2009, Xiong Yan, Nine to Noon (Podcast), Radio New Zealand, June 4, 2009, accessed June 18, 2009. August 2017
  17. ↑ a b c d Wendy Brown, From Tiananmen Square to Fort Bliss: Bliss chaplain knows spiritual fitness ( April 18, 2015 memento on the Internet Archive ), Fort Bliss Bugle, Texas, September 4, 2014, accessed August 18, 2017
  18. ↑ Xiong Yan, Xiong Yan Withdraws from the CCP ( July 17, 2012 memento on the Internet Archive ), Epoch Times, June 1, 2005, accessed August 18, 2017
  19. ↑ New York Democracy Activists Commemorate Anniversary of June 4th Incident ( September 14, 2006 memento on the Internet Archive ), Voice of America, June 4, 2005, accessed August 18, 2017
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  24. ↑ Rena Singer, Tiananmen Students Continue Fight In Exile Many Are Preparing To Return One Day To China To Work To Promote Democracy ( Memento September 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), Philadelphia Inquirer, June 3, 1999, accessed August 17, 2017
  25. ↑ Chaplain promotion list for majors announced , Army Times, March 3, 2011, accessed August 18, 2017
  26. ^ David Aikman, Jesus in Beijing: How Christianity Is Transforming China And Changing the Global Balance of Power , Regnery Publishing, Incorporated, An Eagle Publishing Company, p. 11, March 27, 2012, ISBN 978-1-59698-652-7 , accessed on August 18, 2017
  27. ↑ Detained in China and Tibet: A Directory of Political and Religious Prisoners , Asia Watch, Human Rights Watch, p. 474, February 1994, ISBN 978-1-56432-105-3 , accessed August 18, 2017
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  30. ↑ Bob Fu, Nancy French, God's Double Agent: The True Story of a Chinese Christian's Fight for Freedom , Baker Publishing Group, p. 175, October 1, 2013, ISBN 978-1-4412-4466-6 , accessed on May 18 , 2013 . August 2017
personal data
SURNAME Xiong, Yan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 熊 焱
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese dissident
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Shuangfeng