Feng Congde, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Feng Congde

Chinese dissident

Date of Birth: 05-Mar-1967

Place of Birth: Sichuan, China

Profession: human rights activist

Nationality: China

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Feng Congde

  • Feng Congde (simplified Chinese: ???; traditional Chinese: ???; pinyin: Feng Cóngdé, born 5 March 1966 in Szechuan) is a Chinese dissident and Republic of China Restoration activist.
  • He came into prominence during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 as a student leader from Peking University, which placed him onto the Chinese government's 21 Most Wanted list.
  • He spent 10 months hiding in various locations in China, until he was smuggled out to Hong Kong on a shipping vessel.Feng and Chai Ling, a fellow student leader and his wife at the time, were given special permission by the French government to smuggle into France and flown out in secrecy to Paris accompanied by a French diplomat.
  • He spent 15 years in France, in 2003 he received his Ph.D degree of Religious Sciences on Taoism and Traditional Chinese Medicine at Sorbonne, Paris.
  • He now resides in San Francisco, and continues to advocate for freedom and democracy in China.
  • Feng strives to provide an uncensored representation of the events of the Tiananmen Square protests through his participation in social media and his website, 64memo.com.
  • Feng is the author of A Tiananmen Journal: Republic on the Square, published in 2009 in Chinese.
  • He is the Executive Director of Tiananmen Academy since 2014.

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