Xu Jiatun
Xu Jiatun | |
|---|---|
许家屯 | |
| Communist Party Secretary of Jiangsu | |
| In office February 1977 – April 1983 | |
| Preceded by | Peng Chong |
| Succeeded by | Han Peixin |
| Governor of Jiangsu | |
| In office February 1977 – December 1979 | |
| Preceded by | Peng Chong |
| Succeeded by | Hui Yuyu |
| Director of the Hong Kong Branch of the New China News Agency | |
| In office 1983–1990 | |
| Preceded by | Wang Kuang |
| Succeeded by | Zhou Nan |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1916年03月10日)10 March 1916 Rugao, Nantong, Jiangsu, China |
| Died | 29 June 2016(2016年06月29日) (aged 100) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Political party | Chinese Communist Party (until 1991) |
| Occupation | Politician |
Xu Jiatun (Chinese: 许家屯; 10 March 1916 – 29 June 2016) was a Chinese politician and dissident. He was the Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary of Jiangsu Province from 1977 to 1983 and the Governor of Jiangsu from 1977 to 1979. After sympathizing with the 1989 Tiananmen Square student protests, he left the country and lived in self-exile in the United States.
Career
[edit ]Xu was the member of the 11th and 12th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party from 1977 to 1987.[1] He was the Chinese Communist Party secretary of Jiangsu Province from 1977 to 1983 and the Governor of Jiangsu from 1977 to 1979.[2] He became the director of the Hong Kong branch of the Xinhua News Agency from 1983 to 1989,[3] [4] then China's de facto political presence in the territory.[3] He participated in the preparatory works of the establishment of the Hong Kong SAR and was vice-chairman of the Hong Kong Basic Law Drafting Committee.[5]
Xu sympathized with the Tiananmen Square student protests in 1989. After the military crackdown in June, he fled to the United States and lived there in exile.[3] He was later expelled from the CCP. In 1994, he published memoirs.[6]
Xu later lived in Orange County, California, United States. In 1997, he joined an appeal to the National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party in Beijing to reverse the government report condemning the 1989 Tiananmen student protests.[7] In a 2016 interview with the Hong Kong journalist Simon Kei Shek Ming, published in Initium Media, Xu, who had been recently released from hospital, predicted that Xi Jinping would arrest "higher level" tigers in the CCP.[8] He died in June 2016 at the age of 100.[9]
References
[edit ]- ^ "Xu Jiatun 许家屯". China Vitae.
- ^ 《中华人民共和国日史》 编委会 (2003). 中华人民共和国日史 (in Chinese). 四川人民出版社. p. 263. ISBN 978-7-220-06468-5 . Retrieved 16 January 2025.
- ^ a b c Zhao, Ziyang (2009). Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang . Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9781439149386.
- ^ Zhao, Suisheng (2004). Chinese Foreign Policy: Pragmatism and Strategic Behavior. M.E. Sharpe. p. 106.
- ^ China. 全国人民代表大会. 常务委员会. 办公庁. 研究室 (1987). 全国人大及其常委会大事记, 1954年-1987年 (in Chinese). 法律出版社. p. 412. ISBN 978-7-5036-0257-3 . Retrieved 16 January 2025.
- ^ 文献与综述:中华学人文革论文集(一) (in Chinese). Remembering Publishing, LLC. 2020. p. 200. Retrieved 16 January 2025.
- ^ "Exile in U.S. Joins Tiananmen Appeal". Los Angeles Times . 18 September 1997.
- ^ "百歲生死許家屯". theinitium.com. 29 May 2016. Retrieved 7 June 2016.
- ^ "Xu Jiatun dies at the age of 100". RTHK. 29 June 2016.
- 1916 births
- 2016 deaths
- Chinese men centenarians
- Chinese dissidents
- Chinese emigrants to the United States
- Chinese Communist Party politicians from Jiangsu
- Delegates to the 5th National People's Congress
- Expelled members of the Chinese Communist Party
- Governors of Jiangsu
- Hong Kong Basic Law Drafting Committee members
- Members of the 12th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
- People's Republic of China politicians from Jiangsu
- People from Rugao
- Politicians from Nantong
- Xinhua News Agency people