Wu Jiaxiang

Wu Jiaxiang (simplified Chinese: 吴稼祥; traditional Chinese: 吳稼祥; pinyin: Wú Jiàxiáng; born 7 October 1955) is a Chinese scholar, writer, and public intellectual. Wu once served in various political roles in the Chinese government. He is visiting scholar at the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University.[1][2]

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Wu.
Wu Jiaxiang
吴稼祥
Born (1955-10-07) October 7, 1955
Tongling County, Anhui
NationalityChinese
EducationPeking University
OccupationScholar, writer, public intellectual
Years active1989 - present
Notable work
The Empire In A Nutshell
MovementTiananmen Square protests of 1989
Movements in contemporary
Chinese political thought
Neoauthoritarianism
New Conservatism

Biography

Wu was born and raised in Datong Town of Tongling County, Anhui. After the Cultural Revolution, he entered Peking University, majoring in economics. After graduation, he was assigned to the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China as an official, then he worked in the Secretariat of the Communist Party of China and General Office of the Communist Party of China. In 1989, during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, he was arrested by the Beijing Public Security Bureau and put in Qincheng Prison. He was subsequently freed in 1992. In 2000, he became a visiting scholar at the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University.

Work
  • The Empire In A Nutshell (Chinese: 果壳里的帝国)[3]
gollark: It seems like bad design to make it so that you need ridiculously secure devices to hold keys instead of just making it so that the user actually explicitly authorizes transactions somehow.
gollark: What if your finger slips and you accidentally wipe your device? What if they just backup the thing before having you unlock it?
gollark: Well, you have 10 fingers, so that isn't a very high bar.
gollark: ...
gollark: You should just pick your words using an actual uniform random number generator then, it is known that humans are awful at this.

References
  1. "Wu Jiaxiang". Australian Centre on China in the World. 2015.
  2. 吴稼祥：民主是中国不可能拒绝的东西. Ifeng (in Chinese). 2013-04-27.
  3. 《果壳里的帝国》 [The Empire In A Nutshell] (in Chinese). Shanghai Joint Publishing. 2005. p. 301. ISBN 9787542621023.
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