Yan Jiaqi
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Yan Jiaqi 嚴家其 (born December 15, 1942, in Jiangsu) is a Chinese political scientist, now a dissident and federalist.
In 1959, he entered the University of Science and Technology of China, and then became the director of the Institute of Political Research of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, where he published several essays and papers on political reform. In 1986, he published a “theory of leadership”. His most famous book, written in collaboration with his wife, was “Cultural Revolution, a fifteen year history”.
He became a political advisor of Zhao Ziyang during the 1980s, and was one of the leading intellectuals supporting the student movement in 1989. After the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, he fled to the USA. He was expelled from the Communist Party of China in 1991, while in exile.
He is a member of the Chinese Constitutional Reform Association and has suggested the formation of a Federal Republic of China.
