| Description | Yang Jianli is a Chinese dissident, mathematician, and political scientist with a United States residency. He is the son of a Communist Party leader. Yang was detained in China in 2002 and was released in 2007. He now lives in the United States, where he is a human rights activist. | Yang Jianli is a Chinese dissident, political scientist, and human rights activist based in the United States. A participant in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, he subsequently established the Foundation for China in the 21st Century and became an advocate of nonviolent democratic change in China. |
|---|
