Xiao Qiang (simplified Chinese: 萧强; traditional Chinese: 蕭強; pinyin: Xiāo Qiáng) is the Director of China Internet Project and an adjunct professor at the Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley. He is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of China Digital Times, a bilingual collaborative China news website.
A theoretical physicist by training, Xiao Qiang studied at the University of Science and Technology of China and entered...
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Xiao Qiang (simplified Chinese: 萧强; traditional Chinese: 蕭強; pinyin: Xiāo Qiáng) is the Director of China Internet Project and an adjunct professor at the Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley. He is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of China Digital Times, a bilingual collaborative China news website.
A theoretical physicist by training, Xiao Qiang studied at the University of Science and Technology of China and entered the PhD program (1986-1989) in astrophysics at the University of Notre Dame. He became a full time human rights activist after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Xiao was the Executive Director of the New York-based NGO Human Rights in China from 1991 to 2002 and vice-chairman of the steering committee of the World Movement for Democracy. He has spoken at each meeting of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in Geneva from 1993 to 2001, and has testified many times before the United States Congress. He has lectured on the...
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