Initiatives for China header image 2

Daughter of Chinese Dissident Talks of Her Father’s Ordeal

September 5th, 2008 · No Comments

09-05-2008
Initiatives for China
Contact: Jim Geheran
Tel: 202-290-1423
initiatives4china@gmail.com
www.initiativesforchina.org

Initiatives for China intern, Ti-Anna Wang, also attended the Capitol Hill Prayer Partners’ meeting.  She spoke about her father’s ordeal as a prisoner in China.  Dr. Wang Bingzhang is widely recognized as the founder of the overseas Chinese pro-democracy movement.  In 2002, Dr. Wang, a devout Christian, was kidnapped in Vietnam by Chinese State Police.   He was taken to China and imprisoned for life.  The Capitol Hill Prayer Partners encircled Ti-Anna as they prayed for her father.  As part of her internship, Ti-Anna will be working to gather support for her father’s freedom.  For more information on Dr. Wang Bingzhang click here. (www.wangbingzhang.com)

Pictured directly above is CHPP leader Sara Ballenger presenting Ti-Anna with a “Purple Heart” for her father’s bravery.

Tags: Acitivities of Initiatives for China

Introduction to the Founder

Dr. Yang Jianli

Founder and President of Initiatives for China, Dr. Yang Jianli was born in Shandong Province in northern China. A graduate of Beijing Normal University, Dr. Yang holds a PhD. in Mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley, and a PhD in Political Economy from the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government. In 1989, at the age of 26, his fellow graduate students at Berkeley selected him to go to Beijing in support of their counterparts in China who were demonstrating for democracy in Tiananmen Square. He arrived in Tiananmen Square in time to witness the massacre of thousands of peaceful demonstrators by the guns and tanks of the Chinese government. This event fundamentally changed young Jianli's future. He narrowly escaped capture and returned to the United States where he committed himself to studying democracy. Read more...