Hao Wu

Wu Hao (born 1972, Chinese name: 吴皓) is a documentary maker and blogger known as "Tian Yi".

Education

* Bachelor of Science in biology from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1992.
* M.S. in molecular and cell biology from Brandeis University in 1995.
* MBA from the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, in 2000.

Film work

His first film, "Beijing or Bust", documents the trials and tribulations of six American born Chinese who chose to return to Beijing and the cultural adaptation they faced. The film was shown in the 6th Annual San Diego Asian Film Festival in 2005. [cite news |url=http://www.sdaff.org/festival/2005/program_desc.php?program_id=72 |title=Beijing or Bust |date=2005 |accessdate=2006-08-02 |publisher=San Diego Asian Film Festival]

Detention

Wu was detained by the Chinese government on February 22, 2006 for almost five months. According to the Global Voices initiative at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Hao had been producing a documentary on "underground" Christian Chinese house churches in China when he was detained by authorities in the People's Republic of China. [South China Morning Post, 2008-01-17.]

Following his detention, Global Voices co-founder Ethan Zuckerman started a new blog to monitor the status of Hao's detention, which was covered widely by blogs and news outlets around the world. Hao was released on July 11, 2006.

References

External links

* [http://www.globalvoicesonline.org Global Voices]
* [http://beijingorbust.blogspot.com/ Beijing or Bust] - Hao's blog
* [http://spaces.msn.com/members/chinafool/ Beijing or Bust] - mirror site of Hao's blog (accessible in mainland China)
* [http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/author/tianyi/ Tian Yi profile] at Global Voices
* [http://www.freehaowu.org Free Hao Wu blog]
* [http://wuhaofamily.spaces.msn.com Hao's sister Nina's blog]
* 2006-03-21, [http://freemedia.wordpress.com/2006/03/21/what-happened-to-hao-the-blogger/ What happened to Hao the Blogger?] on [http://freemedia.wordpress.com/ Free Media - Press Freedom]
* 2006-03-31, Benedict's Chinese Flock, (pg. A.16) in The Wall Street Journal
* 2006-04-14, [http://www.gopetition.com/region/237/8389.html online petition for immediate release of Hao Wu]
* 2006-04-20, [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/19/AR2006041902486.html?referrer=emailarticle Shattering the China Dream] on The Washington Post
* 2006-04-26, [http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=17413 After two months without news, authorities accused of "kidnapping" blogger] on Reporters Without Borders
* 2006-07-03, Geoffrey Fowler, Gray Zone: An Arrest in China Spotlights Limits to Artistic Freedom in China, (pg. A.1) in The Wall Street Journal
* 2006-07-11, [http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=18253 Reporters Without Borders] - statement on Hao Wu's release