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About Wei Jingsheng

Wei Jingsheng is a Chinese human rights and democracy advocate. After his “Democracy Wall” posters in Beijing in 1978, and his founding of the journal Exploration, he spent two periods in prison (1979-93, 1994-97). He was awarded the Olof Palme Peace Prize in 1995 and the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in 1996. Since his expulsion from China in 1997 he has lived in the United States. In 1998 he founded the Overseas Chinese Democracy Coalition.

Articles by Wei Jingsheng

Thursday 22nd January

China’s political tunnel

Wei Jingsheng, 22 January 2009

China’s economic crisis presents its government with an impossible political choice Plus: Charter08, a brave appeal for human rights

Monday 26th July

China's past, America's future?

Wei Jingsheng and Anne-Marie Slaughter, 26 July 2004

Can America combine power with modesty? In the first in a new series in which original voices from around the world exchange letters with Americans, the leader of the Chinese democracy movement Wei Jingsheng writes to Anne-Marie Slaughter, Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton.