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Chai Ling

Chinese psychologist (born )

Not to be confused with Chai Jing.

In this Chinese name, the family name is Chai.

Chai Ling (Chinese: 柴玲; pinyin: Chái Líng; born April 15, ) is a Chinese psychologist who was one of the student leaders in the Tiananmen Square protests. According in the documentary Gate of Heavenly Peace, she had indicated that the strategy of the leadership group she dominated was to provoke the Government to use violence against the unarmed students. She had also claimed to have witnessed soldiers killing student protesters inside Tiananmen Square.

She is the founder of All Girls Allowed, an organization dedicated to ending China's one-child policy, and the founder and president of Jenzabar, an enterprise resource planning software firm for educational institutions.

She has made a number of controversial remarks regarding her role in the protests that were recorded in an interview with Phillip Cunningham in the documentary The Gate of Heavenly Peace, which have since been the subject of various legal and personal disputes.

Life in China

Chai was born on April 15, , in Rizhao, Shandong. Both Chai's mother and father had been doctors in the People's Liberation Army during the s. Chai is the eldest of four children. In , Chai Ling began her education at Peking University where she eventually earned a B.A. in psychology.

Chai met her future husband, Feng Congde, in January She became aware of Feng after his arrest on January 1, for his participation in a democracy demonstration, and met him a few days later on her way to the university library. Chai and Feng were married in the spring of , though they were forced to alter their identification because they failed to meet the age requirements to be legally married. Af

Notable alumni of
Peking University

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Peking University is th in the world, 22nd in Asia, and 2nd in China by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of notable alumni from Peking University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.

  1. Li Keqiang

    Born in
    China
    Years
    (aged 68)

    Enrolled in Peking University
    graduated with Bachelor of Laws
    In graduated with Doctor of Economics
    Occupations
    economistpolitician

    Biography

    Li Keqiang was a Chinese economist and politician who served as the premier of the People's Republic of China from to He was also the second-ranked member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from to Li was a major part of the "fifth generation of Chinese leadership" along with Xi Jinping, the CCP general secretary.

  2. Liu Xiaobo

    Born in
    China
    Years
    (aged 62)

    Occupations
    literary criticpoethuman rights activistwriter

    Biography

    Liu Xiaobo was a Chinese literary critic, human rights activist, philosopher and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who called for political reforms and was involved in campaigns to end communist one-party rule in China. He was arrested numerous times, and was described as China's most prominent dissident and the country's most famous political prisoner. On 26 June , he was granted medical parole after being diagnosed with liver cancer; he died a few weeks later on 13 July

  3. Han Kuo-yu

    Born in
    Taiwan
    Years
    (age 67)

    Occupations
    politician

    Biography

    Han Kuo-yu is a Taiwanese politician and retired Republic of China Army officer who is the current president of the Legislative Yuan.

  4. Renhō

    Born in
    Japan
    Years
    (age 57)

    Occupations
    politiciannews presenteractortarentojournalist

    Biography

    Renhō Saitō, commonly known by her given name,

The Gate of Heavenly Peace (film)

documentary film

The Gate of Heavenly Peace (Chinese: 天安门; pinyin: Tiānānmén) is a documentary film, produced by Richard Gordon and Carma Hinton, about the Tiananmen Square protests of

Synopsis

The Gate of Heavenly Peace is a three-hour documentary film about the protests at Tiananmen Square, which culminated in the violent government crackdown on June 4. The film uses archival footage and contemporary interviews with a wide range of Chinese citizens, including workers, students, intellectuals, and government officials, to revisit the events of “Beijing Spring.” From the beginning of the protests in mid-April to the night of June 3–4, the film provides a “meticulous day-by-day chronicle of the six-week period… This unglamorous but absorbing film interweaves videotaped scenes of the demonstrations and conversations with leaders and participants with an explanatory narration into an account that is as clear-headed as it is thorough and well-organized.”

Among those interviewed are Liu Xiaobo, Wang Dan, Wuer Kaixi, Han Dongfang, Ding Zilin, Chai Ling, Dai Qing, Feng Congde, and Hou Dejian.

In addition, The Gate of Heavenly Peace examines the deeper history behind the demonstrations, providing historical and cultural context for the famous images that the Western media flashed around the world. The film explores the symbolic importance of Tiananmen Square and also looks at earlier political movements in China from the May Fourth Movement of to the Cultural Revolution of –76 to the Tiananmen Incident of In so doing, the film considers the ways in which the political habits and attitudes that came to inform public life in China over the past century also shaped the events of

Pauline Chen writes: “The Gate of Heavenly Peace illuminates how images of these movements, filtered and refracted through propaganda, emotion, and imperfect memory, provided inspiration and models for the participants

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