- Zhang Boli
Zhang Boli (born
1959 ) was a Chinese dissident.Biography
Zhang Boli was born in
Wangkui County ,Heilongjiang Province. He worked as a journalist after graduating from a 3-year college inHeilongjiang Province. He was attending a short training program inBeijing University in 1989.Zhang participated and became one of the leaders in the late stage of the
Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 and helped organize thehunger strike that happened with it. He was number 17 on the Chinese Most Wanted list for the 21 Tiananmen Square Protest leaders.After escaping from
Beijing , Zhang spent 2 years as a fugitive in China. He once escaped into the Soviet Union, but was refused the request to be sent to a free country as a political refugee, seeking asylum. He was allowed to escape back into China. He worked a small farm in a remote corner of Heilongjiang province. After a friend found a way for him to escape, he came down south again. After divorcing his wife and briefly reuniting with his daughter, he was smuggled into Hong Kong.He wrote a book called "
Escape From China " about how he escaped thePRC government. He is currently a pastor in the Washington DC area and leads a church called "Harvest Chinese Christian Church" in Fairfax, Virginia. He married his second wife and has two children from two marriages.ee also
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Yuan Zhiming
*Wuer Kaixi
*Wang Dan (dissident) ources
*cite book | author = Zhang Boli | year = 2002 | title = Escape from China: The Long Journey from Tiananmen to Freedom | others = trans. Kwee Kian Low | publisher = Washington Square Press | location = New York | id = ISBN 0-7434-3160-X
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