Yuan Hongbing

Yuan Hongbing

Yuan Hongbing (simplified Chinese: 袁红冰; traditional Chinese: 袁紅冰; pinyin: Yuán Hóngbīng; 1952 - ) is an ethnic Mongolian jurist, novelist, and Chinese dissident.

Biography

Born in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, Yuan Hongbing, who known as a prominent Chinese dissident, novelist, philosopher, and liberalism jurist later, spent his childhood with his parents who worked at the Inner Mongolia Daily. During the Cultural Revolution, Yuan had to give up on schooling to become an educated youth in the countryside. In 1972, he became a factory worker in a local chemical factory. During that time, he organized the factory workers to engage in political campaigns on many occasions until he sat for the entrance examination and was enrolled at Beijing University to study law. In 1985, after he completed his M.A. in law, he stayed as a lecturer in the Department of Law, Beijing University. He was the head of the Procedural Law Section of the Department from 1986 to 1994.He graduated from Beijing University with a masters degree in criminal procedure in 1986 and went on to head the School of Criminal Procedural law at Beijing University.

In the June 4th Incident at Tiananmen Square in 1989, Yuan created and organized The Beijing University Faculty Support Association, a political organization in support of the student movement dubbed “illegal” by the Chinese Communist regime, and was persecuted as a result.

In 1990 Yuan published Winds on the Plain (simplified Chinese: 荒原风; traditional Chinese: 荒原風; pinyin: huāngyuán fēng), a book which gained a considerable following among university students. In it Yuan propounds what he calls "new heroicism" (Chinese: 新英雄主义; pinyin: xīn yīngxióngzhǔyì) with a cause that is primarily concerned with the "fate of the Chinese race".

Yuan Hongbing has also been active as a labour organiser. He was involved with Charter 08, a "Peace Charter" reportedly modelled on the Czechoslovak Charter 77. In 1994 he was detained by government authorities and forced to leave Beijing, becoming one of China's most prominent public dissidents. Yuan went into exile in the remote province of Guizhou, and became the Dean of the law school at Guizhou Normal University.

In 2004 he and his assistant Zhao Jing travelled to Australia, and on 28 July they sought political asylum. In June 2005 he spoke in support of defector Chen Yonglin, accusing the Chinese government of attempting to turn Australia into a "political colony".

In 2009, Yuan Hongbing published his book Taiwan Disaster (Chinese: 台灣大劫難：2012不戰而勝台灣), a highly critical account of contemporary Taiwanese society and politics, and detailed his views on the role of the CCP in pursuing unification in Taiwan.

In 2011, he declared that Hu Jintao had masterminded the death of the 10th Panchen Lama.

Major publications

Literature Writings:

1. Freedom in the Sunset, published in October 2004
2. Lamentation of Literature, published in October 2004
3. Golden Holy Mountain, published in March 2005
4. Back to Desolation, published in March 2005
5. Culture and Destination, published in March 2009
6. The Love of A Philosopher, published in September 2010

Philosophy Writings:

1. Wind of the Wild Land, published in May 1990.
2. Philosophy of Heroic Personality, published in June 2004
3. Lead to the Top of the Sky -- Crossing Himalayas, published in March 2011

Political Philosophy Writings:

1. Catastrophe of Human Beings, published in September 2012

Modern Politics Writings:

1. The Taiwan Crisis, published in November 2009 ( in English, Japanese, French, and Chinese )
2. Taiwan Grand State Strategies, published in September 2010
3. Grand Spirit of Taiwan, published in September 2011
4. Incarnated Taiwan, published in October 2012

See also

• Chinese nationalism