Wu Jiaxiang

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Wu Jiaxiang (simplified Chinese: 吴稼祥; traditional Chinese: 吳稼祥; pinyin: Wú Jiàxiáng; born 7 October 1955) is a Chinese scholar, writer, and public intellectual. Wu once served in various political roles in the Chinese government. He is visiting scholar at the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University.^[1][2]

Biography

Wu was born and raised in Datong Town of Tongling County, Anhui. After the Cultural Revolution, he entered Peking University, majoring in economics. After graduation, he was assigned to the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China as an official, then he worked in the Secretariat of the Communist Party of China and General Office of the Communist Party of China. In 1989, during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, he was arrested by the Beijing Public Security Bureau and put in Qincheng Prison. He was subsequently freed in 1992. In 2000, he became a visiting scholar at the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University.

Work

• The Empire In A Nutshell (Chinese: 果壳里的帝国)^[3]

References

External links

• Wu Jiaxiang on Weibo (in Chinese)
• Wu Jiaxiang on Sinablog