From Prison Memoirs Tuesday, June 02, 2009 10:14 PMWang Dan was a leader of the 1989 student pro-democracy protest in Tiananmen Square. Following the government crackdown on June 4, Wang, who was on the government's most wanted list, went into hiding. He was arrested in 1990 and sentenced to four years imprisonment in 1991. After being released on parole in 1993, Wang wrote [...]
Wang Dan
Wang Dan, writer, essayist and poet, was the most prominent leader of the Tiananmen student pro-democracy movement. Following the Chinese government's crackdown on June 4, 1989, he was arrested and sentenced to four years of imprisonment. After being released on parole in 1993, he continued to speak out against the totalitarian government and was rearrested in 1995 for conspiring to overthrow the Communist Party of China. In 1998, before U.S. President Bill Clinton visited China, Wang was released on medical parole and arrived in the United States. With a doctorate in history from Harvard University, Wang is now the author of seventeen books, including
Prison Memoirs and
I Walk Alone in the Cold. The excerpt from his
Prison Memoirs is the first time Wang's work appears in English.
Writings by Wang Dan available on Words Without Borders:
From Prison Memoirs
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