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Leader of the Chinese: Jian-li Yang, democracy activist, after five years in prison.(CHINA)
Jian-Li YANG is a face of the new China--or rather, what many hope will be the new China: free, democratic, and respectful of human rights. He is one of the leading democracy activists of the Chinese people, and one of the leading democracy activists in the world. From April 2002 to April 2007, he was confined to Chinese prisons. There was once a book about the American Civil War: Across Five Aprils. Yang had six Aprils. He recently returned to the United States, where he has been living since the 1980s (when not in Chinese prisons). His story is well worth knowing. I will provide a kind of synopsis.
He was born in 1963, in the province of Shandong, northeastern ...
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