Shen Tong
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Shen Tong is a Chinese dissident who was one of student leaders in the democracy movement at Tiananmen Square in 1989.
Shen Tong was born in 1968, in Beijing. He studied at Beijing University from 1986 to 1989, and became one of the student leaders during the 1989 protest. He was wanted by Chinese government but successfully escaped from the PRC, six days after the government response on June 4, 1989.
He then studied biology at Brandeis University and later political philosophy at Harvard University and Boston University. He co-authored the book Almost a Revolution, published in 1990, a memoir of his experiences at the Tiananmen Square democracy movement.
Shen Tong is currently the founder and CEO of the company VFinity, which makes software tools for media production, archiving, and publishing. He also runs a foundation for China's democracy movements. He lives in New York City, and has a daughter and a son.
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