Feng Congde

In this Chinese name, the family name is Feng.
Feng Congde
封從德
Born (1966-03-05) 5 March 1966 (age 58)
Sichuan, China
Alma materPeking University (BA, MA)
Sorbonne University (PhD)
Known forTiananmen Square protests of 1989
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(m. 1988; div. 1990)​

Feng Congde (simplified Chinese: 封从德; traditional Chinese: 封從德; pinyin: Fēng Cóngdé, born 5 March 1966 in Sichuan)[1] is a Chinese dissident and Republic of China Restoration activist. He was a student leader from Peking University during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, which placed him onto the Chinese government's 21 Most Wanted list. He spent 10 months hiding in various locations in mainland China, until he was smuggled out to Hong Kong on a shipping vessel.[1][2]

Feng and Chai Ling, a fellow student leader and his wife at the time, were given special permission by the French government to smuggle into France and flown out in secrecy to Paris accompanied by a French diplomat.[3][4] He spent 15 years in France, in 2003 he received his Ph.D. degree of Religious Sciences on Taoism and Traditional Chinese Medicine at Sorbonne, Paris.

He now resides in San Francisco, and continues to advocate for freedom and democracy in China.[4][5] Feng strives to provide an uncensored representation of the events of the Tiananmen Square protests through his participation in social media and his website, 64memo.com.[4][5][6] Feng is the author of A Tiananmen Journal: Republic on the Square, published in 2009 in Chinese. He is the Executive Director of Tiananmen Academy since 2014.

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