Chinese political scientist and dissidentIn this Chinese name, the family name is Yan.

Yan Jiaqi (simplified Chinese: 严家其; traditional Chinese: 嚴家其; pinyin: Yán Jiāqí; born December 25, 1942) is a Chinese political scientist and dissident.

Contents

• 1 Biography
• 2 Bibliography
• 3 References
• 4 External links

Biography

Yan was born on 25 December 1942 in Wujin District, Changzhou, Jiangsu, during the Chinese Civil War. In 1959, he entered the University of Science and Technology of China, and then became the director of the Ins*ute of Political Research of the Chinese 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 Gao Gao, was Turbulent Decade: A History of the Cultural Revolution.

He became a political advisor of Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang during the 1980s, and was one of the leading intellectuals supporting the student movement in 1989. After the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and m*acre, he fled to Paris, France, where he participated in forming the Federation for a Democratic China and was elected the federation's first president. He was expelled from the Communist Party of China in 1991, while in exile.

He is a member of the Chinese Cons*utional Reform *ociation and has suggested the formation of a Federal Republic of China.

Jiaqi is one of three subjects in the feature do*entary The Exiles (2022) which won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Do*entary at the Sundance Film Festival.

Bibliography

Books written in Chinese translated into English

• Turbulent Decade Co-aut*d with Gao Gao, translated by D.W.Y. Kwok. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 1996
• Toward a Democratic China translated by David S. K. Hong and Denis C. Mair. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 1992
• Yan Jiaqi and China's Struggle For Democracy, translated by David Bachman and Dali L. Yang. M.E.Sharpe Inc. 1992

References

External links

• Alliance Introduction

ProtestersMilitaryWorks

• Almost a Revolution
• A Tiananmen Journal
• Collection of June Fourth Poems
• The Critical Moment – Li Peng Diaries
• Escape from China
• Execution
• The Gate of Heavenly Peace
• A Heart for Freedom
• Leica advert
• Moving the Mountain
• Prisoner of the State
• Quelling the People
• Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square
• Tiananmen Exiles
• The Tiananmen Papers
• Pillar of Shame
• Chimerica
  • TV series

Human rights
groups

• China Support Network
• Democracy Party of China
• Hong Kong Alliance
• Human Rights in China
• Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy
• Operation Yellowbird
• Tiananmen Mothers

Anniversaries

• 10th (1999)
• 20th (2009)
• 21st (2010)
• 24th (2013)
• 25th (2014)
• 30th (2019)
• 31st (2020)
• 32nd (2021)

Icons

• "Nothing to My Name"
• Tank Man
• June 4th Museum
• Goddess of Democracy
  • Hong Kong

Related

• Reactions to the protests and m*acre
• Arrest and trial of Chen Ziming and Wang Juntao
• Human rights in China