Wu Jiaxiang

Wu Jiaxiang (born 7 October 1955) is a Chinese scholar, writer, and public intellectual. Wu once served in various political roles in the Chinese government. He is visiting scholar at the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University.

Biography
Wu was born and raised in Datong Town of Tongling County, Anhui. After the Cultural Revolution, he entered Peking University, majoring in economics. After graduation, he was assigned to the Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party as an official, then he worked in the Secretariat and General Office of the Chinese Communist Party. In 1989, during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, he was arrested by the Beijing Public Security Bureau and put in Qincheng Prison. He was subsequently freed in 1992. In 2000, he became a visiting scholar at the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University.

Work

 * The Empire In A Nutshell