Zhang Boli
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Zhang Boli (b. 1965) was a Chinese dissident who helped organize and was a leader of the Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 and helped organize the hunger strike that happened with it. After the protests, he was put on the Chinese Most Wanted list for the Tiananmen Square Protest leaders (1). After escaping from Beijing University, Boli spent 2 years as a fugitive in China. He tried once to escape into the Soviet Union, they allowed him to escape back into China, but would not send him to a free country as a political refugee, seeking asylum. After he came back from the Soviet Union he started a small farm in a remote corner of Heilongjiang. After a friend found a way for him to escape, he came down south again, heard of his wifes divorce, saw his child, and was smuggled into Hong Kong. He wrote a book called Escape From China(1) about how he escaped the PRC government. He is currently a pastor in the Washington DC & Maryland area. He now leads a church called "Harvest Chinese Christian Church" in Fairfax, Virginia.
[edit] See Also
- Yuan Zhiming
- Wuer Kaixi
- Wang Dan
[edit] Sources
- Zhang Boli (2002). Escape from China: The Long Journey from Tiananmen to Freedom, trans. Kwee Kian Low, New York: Washington Square Press. ISBN 0-7434-3160-X.
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