Wu Jiaxiang ( zh, s=吴稼祥, t=吳稼祥, p=Wú Jiàxiáng; born 7 October 1955) is a Chinese scholar, writer, and

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. Wu once served in various political roles in the Chinese government. He is visiting scholar at the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at

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Biography

Wu was born and raised in Datong Town of Tongling County,

Anhui Anhui is an inland Provinces of China, province located in East China. Its provincial capital and largest city is Hefei. The province is located across the basins of the Yangtze and Huai rivers, bordering Jiangsu and Zhejiang to the east, Jiang ...

. After the

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, he entered

Peking University Peking University (PKU) is a Public university, public Types of universities and colleges in China#By designated academic emphasis, university in Haidian, Beijing, China. It is affiliated with and funded by the Ministry of Education of the Peop ...

, majoring in economics. After graduation, he was assigned to the

Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party The Publicity Department of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, also known as the Propaganda Department or Central Propaganda Department, is an internal division of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) ...

as an official, then he worked in the

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and

General Office of the Chinese Communist Party The General Office of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, often referred to as the Central Office (), is an office directly under the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party in charge of providing support for the Cent ...

. In 1989, during the

1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre The Tiananmen Square protests, known within China as the June Fourth Incident, were student-led demonstrations held in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, lasting from 15 April to 4 June 1989. After weeks of unsuccessful attempts between t ...

, he was arrested by the Beijing Public Security Bureau and put in

Qincheng Prison The Ministry of Public Security Qincheng Prison () is a maximum-security prison located in Qincheng Village, Xingshou, Changping District, Beijing in the People's Republic of China. The prison was built in 1958 with aid from the Soviet Union ...

. He was subsequently freed in 1992. In 2000, he became a visiting scholar at the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at

Work

* ''The Empire In A Nutshell'' ( zh, s=果壳里的帝国, links=no)

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Wu, Jiaxiang 1955 births People from Tongling Living people Peking University alumni Writers from Anhui