Xu Youyu

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Xu.

Xu Youyu (simplified Chinese: 徐友渔; traditional Chinese: 徐友漁; pinyin: Xú Yǒuyú; Wade–Giles: Hsü Yuyü, born 1947), is a Chinese scholar in philosophy, public intellectual and proponent of Chinese liberalism.

Xu was a teenage Red Guard at the time of the Chinese Cultural Revolution,^[1] a witness to the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.^[2] He now works for the Institute of Philosophy of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences as a research fellow,^[3] and is an expert on western social theories including Marxism and the Frankfurt School.^{[citation needed]} He is particularly noted as a historian of the Cultural Revolution.^{[citation needed]}

Charter 08

Main article: Charter 08

Xu is one of the signatories of the Charter 08, a manifesto to promote political reform and democratization in China.^[3]

References

↑ "Mao's lust for power cooked up catastrophe". AFP. 2006-05-18. p. 9. Retrieved 2009-03-28.
↑ MacLeod, Calum (2009-06-04). "Remembering the Tiananmen Square Massacre". USA Today.
↑ 3.0 3.1 Stanway, David (2009-01-04). "Beijing strikes at dissidents". Guardian. Retrieved 2009-03-28.

Bibliography

Xu Youyu (1999). Xingxing sese de zaofan – hongweibing jingshen suzhi de xingcheng ji yanbian (Rebels of All Stripes: A Study of Red Guard Mentalities). Hong Kong: Chinese University Press.

Persondata
Name	Xu, Youyu
Alternative names
Short description	Chinese activist and scholar
Date of birth	1947
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike; additional terms may apply for the media files.