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Yang Jianli calls for“Sanlu Noxious Milk Powder Victims Union”

September 25th, 2008 · No Comments

09-25-2008 Initiatives for China
Contact: Jim Geheran Tel: 202-290-1423 initiatives4china@gmail.com
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Dr. Yang Jianli is the founder of Initiativesforchina (Gong-min-li-liang Movement) and a Senior Research Fellow of Harvard University. As the plenary speaker on the 20th and the 21st of September for the Democracy Forum in Radio Free Asia, he [...]

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Yang Jianli: Olympics mask realities of China

August 9th, 2008 · No Comments

(08-08-2008 Greg Wayland, NECN: Boston, MA) - A journey home was ruined for one foreign scholar in Massachusetts. Yang Jianli was exiled from China after spending five years in jail there. Now just days before the Olympics, he’s told he can’t go home.

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Initiatives for China President Yang Jianli Refused Entry into Hong Kong

August 7th, 2008 · No Comments

Issued by Initiatives for China 08-07-2008
Contact: Jim Geheran Tel: 202-290-1423
Email: initiatives4china@gmail.com
Humanitarian Mission Aborted
August 6, 2008. At 3:00pm Hong Kong time, Chinese authorities blocked Harvard Senior Fellow and Democracy Advocate, Dr. Yang Jianli, from Entering Hong Kong. Dr. Yang is a Chinese citizen with a valid Chinese passport. Dr. Yang is also a former political [...]

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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...