Name Wu Guoguang | ||
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Education Princeton University, Peking University, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Books China's Party Congress, Paradoxes of China's Prosperit, ANATOMY OF POLITICA | ||
Wu Guoguang (simplified Chinese: 吴国光; traditional Chinese: 吳國光; pinyin: Wú Guóguāng; Wade–Giles: Wu Kuo-kuang, born in 1957 in Linyi, Shandong, China), is a Professor in Department of Political Science and Department of History at the University of Victoria in Canada, and also the Chair in China & Asia-Pacific Relations at the Centre for Asian Pacific Initiatives. He is renowned for being a member of the central policy group on political reform during the tenure of Prime Minister Zhao Ziyang.
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Education
Wu holds a B.A. in journalism from Beijing University, an M.A. in law from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from Princeton University. He has been a sent-down youth, a factory assistant, secretary to the president of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, chief editor of the department of current affairs at the People's Daily, and a member of the Office for Restructuring Central Politics. From 1986 to 1987, he participated in researching and formulating the Chinese Communist Party's policy on political reform, and, as an assistant to Zhao Ziyang's political secretary, Bao Tong, was one of the drafters of the Chinese Communist Party's '13th General Meeting' report on political reform. He is intimately familiar with Zhao's thought about and efforts on behalf of political reform. Later he resigned in response to the government's handling of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. He was interviewed about the protests in the documentary film The Gate of Heavenly Peace.
After 1989
Wu was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, a Luce Fellow at Columbia University, and a Wang An Post-Doctoral Fellow at the John King Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University. He was also an assistant and an associate professor in the Department of Politics and Administration at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and is currently a professor at the University of Victoria, where he teaches in the Departments of Political Science and History and holds the China Program Chair at the Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives.
Publications in English
Personal Website
浮桴书屋 wuguoguang.com