Misplaced Pages

Xiao Qiang: Difference between revisions

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Browse history interactively← Previous editNext edit →Content deleted Content addedVisualWikitext
Revision as of 01:18, 13 January 2006 edit128.32.58.218 (talk)No edit summary← Previous edit Revision as of 09:35, 18 January 2006 edit undoPatCheng (talk | contribs)Extended confirmed users3,062 editsNo edit summaryNext edit →
Line 1: Line 1:
]
'''Xiao Qiang''' ({{zh-stp |t=蕭強 |s=萧强 |p=Xiāo Qiáng}}) is a world-known ] ] activist living in ]. He is the director of the ] at the ] ]. '''Xiao Qiang''' ({{zh-stp |t=蕭強 |s=萧强 |p=Xiāo Qiáng}}) is a world-known ] ] activist living in ]. He is the director of the ] at the ] ].


Xiao studied ] at the ] and from there entered the ] ] ] program from 1986 to 1989. After the massacre at ] in 1989, he became a human rights activist. He was Executive Director of ] from ] to ] and remains vice-chairman of the steering committee of the ]. He is also a weekly commentator for ]. Xiao studied ] at the ] and from there entered the ] ] ] program from ] to ]. After the events of ] in 1989, he became a human rights activist. He was Executive Director of ] from ] to ] and remains vice-chairman of the steering committee of the ]. He is also a weekly commentator for ].


Xiao is currently teaching classes on ], ] and ]; researching the confluence of information and communication technologies and China's social and political transition; and running the ] news portal to explore how emerging participatory media technologies and practices can advance the world's understanding of China. Xiao is currently teaching classes on ], ] and ]; researching the confluence of information and communication technologies and China's social and political transition; and running the ] news portal to explore how emerging participatory media technologies and practices can advance the world's understanding of China.

Revision as of 09:35, 18 January 2006

Xiao Qiang (simplified Chinese: 萧强; traditional Chinese: 蕭強; pinyin: Xiāo Qiáng) is a world-known Chinese human rights activist living in Berkeley, California. He is the director of the China Internet Project at the Graduate School of Journalism University of California, Berkeley.

Xiao studied physics at the University of Science and Technology of China and from there entered the University of Notre Dame astrophysics PhD program from 1986 to 1989. After the events of Tiananmen Square in 1989, he became a human rights activist. He was Executive Director of Human Rights in China from 1991 to 2002 and remains vice-chairman of the steering committee of the World Movement for Democracy. He is also a weekly commentator for Radio Free Asia.

Xiao is currently teaching classes on Participatory Media, China and Human Rights; researching the confluence of information and communication technologies and China's social and political transition; and running the China Digital Times news portal to explore how emerging participatory media technologies and practices can advance the world's understanding of China.

Xiao was a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship in 2001, and was a visiting fellow of the Santa Fe Institute in Spring, 2002.


External links

Category: