WChen Wei is a Chinese dissident and human rights activist. In December 2011, he was sentenced to nine years in prison for inciting subversion.
WDee Ching Chuan (李清泉) was a prominent Chinese businessman, philanthropist, and activist known as the Philippine "Lumber King" during the American colonial rule. He was the youngest president of the Philippine Chinese General Chamber of Commerce from 1919 to 1924 and founded China Banking Corporation in 1920. He also founded Chinese language newspapers Chinese Commercial News and Fookien Times.
WFang Xingdong is a Chinese former internet entrepreneur in the early 2000s and currently works with a university in Zhejiang province, China. He launched the blogchina.com in 2002 and received some funding from venture capital firms in 2005. But it quickly became a complete failure in just half an year. He is a proponent of cyber sovereignty and sometimes writes for Global Times, a Chinese 'belligerent state tabloid'.
WGao Zhisheng is a Chinese human rights attorney and dissident known for defending activists and religious minorities and documenting human rights abuses in China. Because of his work, Zhisheng has been disbarred and detained by the Chinese government several times, and severely tortured. He last disappeared in February 2009 and was unofficially detained until December 2011, when it was announced that he has now been imprisoned for three years. His commitment to defending his clients is influenced by his Christian beliefs and their tenets on morality and compassion.
WHe Weifang is a former professor at Peking University of China and an activist striving to reform the Chinese judicial system, who has argued that the Communist Party of China is an unregistered and therefore an illegal organization in China.
WLi Datong was the Managing Editor of Freezing Point, a section of China Youth Daily. He now writes for openDemocracy, which is based in London.
WLi Hongzhi is a Chinese religious leader. He is the founder and leader of Falun Gong, or Falun Dafa, a United States-based new religious movement. Li began his public teachings of Falun Gong on 13 May 1992 in Changchun, and subsequently gave lectures and taught Falun Gong exercises across China.
WMa Jian is a Chinese-born British writer.
WDr. Mao Yisheng (Chinese: 茅以升; pinyin: Máo Yǐshēng; Wade–Giles: Mao2 I3-sheng1; January 9, 1896 – November 12, 1989) was a Chinese structural engineer and social activist. He was one of the most famous Chinese structural engineers, a pioneer in bridge construction, and a social activist.
WOu Hongyi, also known by her English name Howey Ou, is a Chinese environmental activist who organises the school strike for climate in Guilin in southern China, calling for more action to limit greenhouse gas emissions by China and thus climate change.
WTeng Biao is a human rights activist and lawyer in China. Teng is a lecturer at the University of Politics and Law in Beijing. He has been a vocal supporter of human rights activists such as Chen Guangcheng and Hu Jia. He has been arrested at least twice, in March 2008 and in February 2011. He is currently a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School.
WAn Ti-sheng, later changed into An Houzhai, was a Chinese artist and activist.
WTong Zeng, Chinese scholar, social activist, chairman of China Federation of Demanding Compensation from Japan, and chairman of Zhongxiang Investment Co., Ltd.
WWan Yanhai is a Chinese AIDS activist.
WWang Youcai is a Chinese dissident and was one of the prominent student leaders in the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Then a graduate student at the Peking University, he was arrested in 1989 and sentenced to four years in 1991 for "conspiring to overthrow the Government of China".
WYang Xingfo, also spelt Yang Hsingfo (楊杏佛) and otherwise known as Yang Chu'en (楊銓)(Born May 4, 1893, Zhangshu, Jiangxi - June 18, 1933 French Concession, Shanghai) was a Chinese management scholar and activist. He was professor at National Central University in Nanjing and co-founded the Science Society of China while studying at Cornell University.
WYao Lifa, is apparently the first person in China elected through self-nomination to a municipal-level people’s congress.
WYuan Hongbing is a Chinese Australian jurist, novelist, and Chinese dissident.
WZhang Shenfu was a founder of the Chinese Communist Party, a philosopher, and a political activist.