Song Yongyi
Song Yongyi Speaking at a Conference
Born	Song Yongyi (1949-12-15)December 15, 1949 (age 75) Cixi, Zhejiang, China
Occupation	Author, political activist, lecturer
Education	Shanghai Normal University University of Colorado Boulder Indiana University

Song Yongyi (Chinese: 宋永毅; born 15 December 1949)^[1] is aChinese American historian who specializes in the study ofChinese Cultural Revolution.^[2][3][4][5] He currently works at theCalifornia State University, Los Angeles, and previously served as a college librarian at theDickinson College inPennsylvania.^[6][7]

Song Yongyi was born inShanghai, China in December 1949.^[1][8] During theCultural Revolution, Song became aRed Guard who followedMao Zedong, but was jailed when he was 17 for several years because he was part of the "counter-revolutionary clique" that challengedZhang Chunqiao.^[2][3][8]

After the Cultural Revolution, he was accepted into theShanghai Normal University in 1977, when theNational College Entrance Examination was resumed byDeng Xiaoping.^[8] He came to theUnited States in 1989 and obtained aMaster of Arts from theUniversity of Colorado Boulder in 1992, and was awarded another master's degree at theIndiana University Bloomington in 1995.^[8][9][10]

In the summer of 1999, Song went back to China to collect documents related to the Cultural Revolution, but was arrested by the Chinese government for "stealing state secrets".^{[1][8][11][12]} More than 100 scholars and researchers called for his release.^[8][12]United States senatorArlen Specter and U.S. RepresentativeMatt Salmon intervened in the case and negotiated withJiang Zemin, thenGeneral Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party andChinese President.^[3][5] Song was finally released from prison after more than 100 days.^[4][5][8]

• "The Eighth Cultural Award," The Chan's Journalism and Culture Foundation in New York on July 7, 2000.^[13]
• "Award for Scholarship and Promoting Intellectual Freedom," The Pennsylvania Library Association, September 26, 2000.
• "The 21st Century Librarian National Award," School of Information Studies, Syracuse University, October 10, 2004.
• "Paul Howard Award for Courage," American Library Association, Chicago, June 28, 2005.^[14]
• "Champion of Freedom of Speech Award," Visual Artists Guild, Los Angeles, May 27, 2006.
• "Zoia Horn Intellectual Freedom Award," California Library Association, November 11, 2011.
• "CALA Distinguished Service Award," Chinese-American Librarian Association, June 16，2013.

• Yongyi Song; Dajin Sun; Eugene Wu (1998).The Cultural Revolution: a bibliography, 1966-1996. Harvard-Yenching Library, Harvard University.ISBN 978-0-941128-06-3.
• Song Yongyi; Zhou Zehao.Heterodox Thoughts During the Cultural Revolution, Parts I and II, Contemporary Chinese Thought32, no. 4 (Summer 2001);33, no. 1 (Fall 2001)
• Song Yongyi (2002).Massacres during the Cultural Revolution. Open Books.ISBN 9627934097
• Jian Guo; Yongyi Song; Yuan Zhou (2006).Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Scarecrow Press.ISBN 978-0-8108-5461-1.
• Song Yongyi (2011).CHRONOLOGY OF MASS KILLINGS DURING THE CHINESE CULTURAL REVOLUTION (1966-1976).Sciences Po.
• Guo Jian, Yongyi Song, Yuan Zhou (2015).Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Cultural Revolution (Historical Dictionaries of War, Revolution, and Civil Unrest).Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
• Song Yongyi, et al, ed. (2017).Secret Archives about the Cultural Revolution in Guangxi, Classified Documents.Guoshi Press,ISBN 9781630327217.
• Song, Y. (2021).Mao Zedong he Wenhua Dageming: Zhengzhi xinli yu wenhua jiyin de xinchanshi [Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution: A new interpretation from perspectives of political psychology and cultural gene]. Taibei: Lianjing chubanshe.

• Shanghai Normal University alumni
• University of Colorado Boulder alumni
• Indiana University Bloomington alumni
• 1949 births
• Living people
• American librarians of Chinese descent
• American librarians
• Historians of the Cultural Revolution

• CS1 Chinese-language sources (zh)
• Articles with short description
• Short description matches Wikidata