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Xiao Qiang
Xiao Qiang () is a Chinese human rights activist living in California. He is the director of the China Internet Project at the Graduate School of Journalism University of California, Berkeley.
Xiao studied physics at the University of Science and Technology of China and from there entered the University of Notre Dame astrophysics PhD program from 1986 to 1989. After the massacre at Tiananmen Square in 1989, he became a human rights activist. He was Executive Director of Human Rights in China from 1991 to 2002 and remains vice-chairman of the steering committee of the World Movement for Democracy.
He runs the news website China Digital Times and is a weekly commentator for Radio Free Asia.
Xiao was a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship in 2001, and was a visiting fellow of the Santa Fe Institute in Spring, 2002.
Xiao currently teaches classes on participatory media , China and human rights while researching the intersection of technology, media and China's democratic transition.
External links
- Rock-n-Go, Xiao's personal blog
- China Digital Times
- University of Science and Technology of China
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