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Zhang Boli 张伯笠 | |
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| Born | 1959 (age 65–66) |
| Known for | Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 |
| Children | 2 |
Zhang Boli (simplified Chinese:张伯笠;traditional Chinese:張伯笠;pinyin:Zhāng Bólì, born 1959) is a Chinese dissident.
Zhang Boli was born inWangkui County,Heilongjiang Province. He worked as a journalist after graduating from a three-year college inHeilongjiang Province. He attended a short training program for writers atBeijing University in 1989.
Zhang participated in and became one of the leaders in the late stage of theTiananmen Square Protests of 1989 and helped organize thehunger strike that accompanied it. He was number 17 on the Chinese Most Wanted list for the 21 leaders of the Tiananmen Square protests.
After escaping from Beijing, Zhang spent two years as a fugitive in China. He once escaped into the Soviet Union, but his request to be sent to a free country as a political refugee seeking asylum was refused. He was allowed to escape back into China. He worked at a small farm in a remote corner of Heilongjiang Province. After a friend found a way for him to escape, he came down south again and was smuggled into Hong Kong. During Zhang's time hiding, his first wife announced a divorce from him in the newspaper and abandoned their daughter. He managed to visit his daughter briefly before leaving China.
Zhang authored the bookEscape From China, detailing his ordeal escaping from the PRC government. He is currently a pastor in the Washington, D.C. area and leads a church called Harvest Chinese Christian Church inFairfax,Virginia. He is married to his second wife and has two children from two marriages.
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