Yang Jianli

Yang Jianli
Born (1963-08-15) August 15, 1963
Shandong, People's Republic of China
Alma materLiaocheng University (BS)
Beijing Normal University (MS)
University of California, Berkeley (PhD)
Harvard University (PhD)
Yang Jianli
Traditional Chinese
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Hanyu PinyinYáng Jiànlì

Yang Jianli (Chinese: 杨建利; born August 15, 1963) is a Chinese dissident, mathematician, and political scientist with a United States residency. He is the son of a Communist Party leader. Yang was detained in China in 2002 and was released in 2007. He now lives in the United States, where he is a human rights activist.