Wang Youcai

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Wang.

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Wang Youcai

Wang Youcai (Chinese: 王有才; pinyin: Wáng Yǒucái) (born June 29, 1966), an active dissident of the Chinese Government, was one of the supporters of democracy in China and an important student leader in the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Then a graduate student at the Peking University, he was arrested in 1989 and sentenced to four years in 1991 for "conspiring to overthrow the Government of China".

He got released earlier in Nov. 1991 due to the help of US former State Secretary James Addison Baker III who visited to Beijing in 1991.

On June 25, 1998, he and his colleagues organized the China Democracy Party, which is banned by the Chinese government. In December 1998 the Chinese government sentenced him to 11 years in prison for subversion. He was exiled in 2004 under international political pressure, especially of the United States.

Wang was a visiting scholar at Fairbank Center at Harvard University for one year, and completed his master's degree in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2006. He is one of the members of the Chinese Constitutional Democratic Transition Research and one of the members of the Coordinative Service Platform of China Democracy Party. On Jul. 15, 2009. became co-advisor of Overseas Supporters’ Association of the China Democracy Party and later became co-executive associate for Committee of Exiled members of the China Democracy Party on Oct. 10, 2009.

He did his Ph.D research on quark transversity at National Jefferson Laboratory in Newport News, Virginia from June 2007 to June 2010.

He was awarded Ph.D degree in Physics at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2011.

He worked at American Express in New York from Feb, 2011 to Jan. 2013.

External links

• Future China website 未来中国