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Feng Congde (, born 1966 in Szechuan)〔 is a Chinese dissident. He came into prominence during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 as a student leader from Peking University, which placed him onto the Chinese government’s 21 Most Wanted list. He spent 10 months hiding in various locations in China, until he was smuggled out to Hong Kong on a shipping vessel.〔〔 Feng and Chai Ling, a fellow student leader and his wife at the time, were given special permission by the French government to smuggle into France and flown out in secrecy to Paris accompanied by a French diplomat.〔〔 He spent 15 years in France, in 2003 he received his Ph.D degree of Religious Sciences on Taoism and Traditional Chinese Medicine at Sorbonne, Paris. He now resides in San Francisco, and continues to advocate for freedom and democracy in China.〔〔 Feng strives to provide an uncensored representation of the events of the Tiananmen Square protests through his participation in social media and his website, (www.64memo.com ).〔〔〔 Feng is the author of ''A Tiananmen Journal: Republic on the Square'', published in 2009 in Chinese. == Life before and during the 1989 Tiananmen Square Protest == Feng was a Peking University graduate student during the 1986-87 pro-democracy student movement in Tiananmen Square, and was briefly arrested for his participation in the event.〔 Right after his release, he discussed his experiences of the protest and the government response with the crowd of students that gathered.〔 This was where he met Chai Ling, and the two developed a relationship that culminated into a marriage in the spring of 1988.〔 He was admitted to Boston University for postgraduate study.〔 On April 18, 1989, many Peking University students had gone to Tiananmen Square to mourn the death of Hu Yaobang. Hu Yaobang was a symbol of reform and justice, and was revered by many students and opponents of the regime.〔 Policemen with nightsticks attacked the demonstrators in front of Xinhua Gate, and the confrontation lead to the early formations of organizations that would lead the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.〔 Feng had made his way to the forefront of the movement and became a founding member of the Preparatory Committee, which was designated to establish independent student leadership organizations.〔 Throughout the course of the movement, Feng had been designated Chairman of the Coalition of Independent Student Unions of Beijing, the Vice Commander-in-Chief of the Hunger Strike Group on Tiananmen Square, and then the Vice Commander-in-Chief of the Defend Tiananmen Square Headquarters.〔〔 Despite being a charismatic student leader,〔 Feng was often disillusioned by the protests and the political struggles of the student leaders,〔 and was not involved in the student leadership at certain points of the movement.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Feng Congde」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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