Wang Dan

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This article is about the dissident. For the athlete, see Wang Dan (triathlete).

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Wang (王)

Wang Dan (Chinese: 王丹; Pinyin: Wáng Dān) (born February 26, 1969), a leader of the Chinese democracy movement, was one of the most visible of the student leaders in the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Then a freshman at the Peking University, he was arrested and sentenced twice, in 1989 and 1995, for conspiring to overthrow the Communist Party of China. He ultimately spent seven years in a Liaoning prison and was exiled in 1998 under international political pressure to the United States. He is currently the chairman of the Chinese Constitutional Reform Association.

He was flown to New York and completed his master's in East Asian history in 2001 at Harvard University, earning a Ph.D. He is now a visiting scholar in UCLA.

Wang was interviewed and appeared in the documentary The Beijing Crackdown and the movie Moving the Mountain, about the Tiananmen Square protests. He also featured prominately in Shen Tong's book Almost a Revolution.