Location: The Heritage Foundation's Allison Auditorium
Speaking of the student leaders who faced down Chinese
authorities in 1989, Time magazine described Wang Dan as "the most
famous of them all. It was he who, as a 20-year-old student from
Peking University, topped the list of most wanted
'counterrevolutionaries' Beijing published after June 4, 1989. Even
now, as the Tiananmen veterans splinter into factions of
recrimination and guilt, Wang Dan has maintained an integrity that
perhaps no other top dissident enjoys. Many spent years in jail, as
did Wang Dan (nearly a decade), but no one is more a symbol of the
crushed democracy movement than this singularly uncrushed
individual."
Please join us as we discuss with Dr. Wang the critical events of
1989 and the future of liberty in China.
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Dr. Wang Dan
Introductory Remarks by:
The Honorable Sam Brownback (R-KS)
Member,
U.S. Senate
Hosted By
Lee Edwards, Ph.D.
Distinguished Fellow in Conservative Thought, B. Kenneth Simon Center for Principles and Politics
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