Wang Dan
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This article is about the dissident. For the athlete, see Wang Dan (triathlete).
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Wang Dan (Chinese: 王丹) (born February 26, 1969), a leader of the Chinese democracy movement, was one of the most visible of the student leaders in the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Then a freshman at the Beijing University, he was arrested and sentenced twice, in 1989 and 1995, for conspiring to overthrow the Communist Party of China. He ultimately spent seven years in a Liaoning prison and was exiled in 1998 under international political pressure.
He was flown to New York and completed his master's in East Asian history in 2001 at Harvard University. He is now earning a Ph.D.
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External links
- Toronto Star: Wang Dan's visit to Toronto at 2004 (http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=1085868608901&call_pageid=968332188492)
- TIMEasia: The Exile and the Entrepreneur (http://www.time.com/time/asia/covers/501040607/story.html)zh:王丹