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Meet Wu Qiang - the scholar speaking out on China's crackdown on intellectuals | Hong Kong Free Press HKFP

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Wu Qiang, 50, once had an enviable career as political science lecturer at the elite Tsinghua University. But he was dismissed in 2015 after conducting fieldwork at the Occupy Central movement in Hong Kong a year earlier. Wu continues to speak to foreign media despite a nationalistic climate that is increasingly hostile towards outside views.

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Meet Wu Qiang - the scholar speaking out on China's crackdown on intellectuals | Hong Kong Free Press HKFP

by Laurie ChenIn a small, book-strewn apartment in Beijing’s outskirts lives one of the last Chinese academics who refuses to be silenced by the ruling Communist Party’s relentless crackdown on intellectuals.Wu Qiang, 50, once had an enviable career as political science lecturer at the elite Tsinghua University.In this picture taken on June 10, 2021, former Tsinghua University lecturer Wu Qiang speaks during an interview at his apartment in Beij…

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Hong Kong Free Press broke the news in Hong Kong, Hong Kong on Monday, June 21, 2021.
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