Wang Youcai (, born 29 June 1966) is a

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and was one of the prominent student leaders in the

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. At the time he was graduate student at the

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, he was arrested in 1989 and sentenced to four years in 1991 for "conspiring to overthrow the Government of China". He was released early, in November 1991, due to the help of former U.S. Secretary of State

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, who visited Beijing in 1991. On June 25, 1998, he and his colleagues organized the

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, which was subsequently banned by the Chinese government. In December 1998 the Chinese government sentenced him to 11 years in prison for

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. He was released from prison and exiled in 2004 under international political pressure, especially from the

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. Wang was a visiting scholar at Fairbank Center at

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for one year, and completed his master's degree at the

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in 2006. He is one of the members of the Chinese Constitutional Democratic Transition Research and one of the members of the Coordinative Service Platform of China Democracy Party. On July 15, 2009, he became co-advisor of Overseas Supporters' Association of the China Democracy Party, and later became co-executive associate for Committee of Exiled members of the China Democracy Party on October 10, 2009. He did his Ph.D. research on quark transversity at National Jefferson Laboratory in Newport News, Virginia from June 2007 to June 2010. He was awarded a Ph.D. degree in physics at the

in 2011. He worked at

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in New York from February 2011 to December 2012. Then he joined

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and worked there from January 2, 2013 to June 20, 2022.

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External links

Future China website 未来中国
1966 births Living people Chinese activists Chinese dissidents Harvard University staff Prisoners and detainees of the People's Republic of China Grainger College of Engineering alumni {{China-activist-stub