SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Wei Jingsheng

1950 - Today

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Wei Jingsheng (Chinese: 魏京生; born 20 May 1950) is a Chinese human rights activist and dissident. He is best known for his involvement in the Chinese democracy movement. He is most prominent for having authored the essay "The Fifth Modernization", which was posted on the Democracy Wall in Beijing in 1978. As punishment from the government for writing his manifesto, Wei was arrested and convicted of "counter-revolutionary" activities, and was detained as a political prisoner from 1979 to 1993. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Wei Jingsheng is the 376th most popular social activist (down from 354th in 2019), the 762nd most popular biography from China (down from 755th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Chinese Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Wei Jingsheng ranks 376 out of 840. Before him are Toktogul Satylganov, Toyohiko Kagawa, Viola Desmond, Robert Catesby, Baba Amte, and Bipin Chandra Pal. After him are Nikolai Kuznetsov, Leonard Peltier, Flora Brovina, Maria Nikiforova, Tuvia Bielski, and Meshadi Azizbekov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Wei Jingsheng ranks 254. Before him are Marián Masný, Erri De Luca, Nelsinho Baptista, Tapley Seaton, Alan Tam, and Amy Madigan. After him are Ann Wilson, Valeriya Novodvorskaya, Arthur Roche, Jeff Conaway, Franklin Chang Díaz, and N. Chandrababu Naidu.

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In China

Among people born in China, Wei Jingsheng ranks 762 out of 1,610. Before him are Fang Lizhi (1936), Meng Hongwei (1953), Dai Jin (1388), Huang Zongxi (1610), Huang Fu (1883), and Nie Er (1912). After him are Ehmetjan Qasim (1914), Xiao Hong (1911), Nicholas Poppe (1897), Song Yu (-298), Chen Jingrun (1933), and Xu Xiangqian (1901).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In China

Among social activists born in China, Wei Jingsheng ranks 7. Before him are Liu Xiaobo (1955), Zhang Jue (200), Meng Huo (101), Chen Sheng (-250), Li Hongzhi (1951), and Zhang Guotao (1897). After him are Chen Qimei (1878), Harry Wu (1937), Hu Jia (1973), Chen Guangcheng (1971), Wu'erkaixi (1968), and Wang Dan (1969).

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