- Yan Jiaqi
Yan Jiaqi 嚴家其 (born
December 15 ,1942 , inJiangsu ) is a Chinese political scientist, now a dissident and federalist.In 1959, he entered the
University of Science and Technology of China , and then became the director of the Institute of Political Research of theChinese Academy of Social Sciences , where he published several essays and papers on political reform. In 1986, he published a “theory of leadership”. His most famous book, written in collaboration with his wife, was "A Ten Year History of the Cultural Revolution".He became a political advisor of
Zhao Ziyang during the 1980s, and was one of the leading intellectuals supporting the student movement in1989 . After theTiananmen Square protests of 1989 , he fled to the USA. He was expelled from theCommunist Party of China in1991 , while in exile.He is a member of the
Chinese Constitutional Reform Association and has suggested the formation of aFederal Republic of China .External links
* [http://www.alliance.org.hk/prison/?lang=c&viewid=1558 Alliance Introduction]
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