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Yan Jiaqi
Yan Jiaqi
严家其
Born	December 25, 1942 (age 82); Wujin District, Changzhou, Jiangsu, Republic of China
Education	University of Science and Technology of China
Occupation(s)	Political scientist, dissident
Years active	1985–present
Organization	Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Notable work	Turbulent Decade
Political party	Federation for a Democratic China
Movement	Cultural Revolution; Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
Spouse	Gao Gao (高皋)

Yan Jiaqi (simplified Chinese: 严家其; traditional Chinese: 嚴家其; pinyin: Yán Jiāqí; born December 25, 1942) is a Chinese political scientist and dissident.^[1]^[2]

Biography

Yan was born on 25 December 1942 in Wujin District, Changzhou, Jiangsu, during the Chinese Civil War. In 1959, he entered the University of Science and Technology of China, and then became the director of the Institute of Political Research of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, where he published several essays and papers on political reform. In 1986, he published a "theory of leadership". His most famous book, written in collaboration with his wife Gao Gao, was Turbulent Decade: A History of the Cultural Revolution.^{[citation needed]}

He became a political advisor of Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang during the 1980s, and was one of the leading intellectuals supporting the student movement in 1989. After the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre,^[3] he fled to Paris, France, where he participated in forming the Federation for a Democratic China and was elected the federation's first president.^[4] He was expelled from the Chinese Communist Party in 1991, while in exile.^{[citation needed]}

Jiaqi is one of three subjects in the feature documentary The Exiles (2022) which won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival.^[5]

Books written in Chinese translated into English

Turbulent Decade Co-authored with Gao Gao, translated by D.W.Y. Kwok. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 1996
Toward a Democratic China translated by David S. K. Hong and Denis C. Mair. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 1992
Yan Jiaqi and China's Struggle For Democracy, translated by David Bachman and Dali L. Yang. M.E.Sharpe Inc. 1992

^ 我和朱厚泽的交往. 163.com (in Chinese). 15 May 2012. Archived from the original on 11 August 2015. Retrieved 23 March 2018.
^ 复旦大学宣传部长萧思健因病逝世年仅48岁. Sohu (in Chinese). 8 May 2015. 萧思健在接受复旦校内的学生记者采访时曾经表示，在读本科的时候，对自己影响最为深远的老师是王沪宁，他28岁就成为当时中国最年轻的副教授,在当时的政治学界：北有严家其，南有王沪宁,他可以非常冷静去看待问题。
^ 关于制止动乱和平息反革命暴乱的情况报告. npc.gov.cn (in Chinese). 2015.
^ "海外民运"哪儿给钱多去哪逢中必反遭华人唾弃. jschina.com.cn (in Chinese). 12 February 2015. Archived from the original on 20 February 2020. Retrieved 23 March 2018.
^ DeFore, John (22 January 2022). "'The Exiles': Film Review | Sundance 2022". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 11 May 2022.