Yuan Hongbing

Yuan Hongbing (Chinese袁红 冰/袁红 冰, Pinyin Yuán Hongbing, born 1953 in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia ) is a Mongolian writer, lawyer and dissident in China.

Life

Yuan was born in 1953 in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia. He graduated from Peking University in 1986 with a master's degree in criminal justice and graduated from the School of Law at Peking University.

Following the protests at Tiananmen Square in 1989 yuan came under official observation due to his opinions. Published in 1990 yuan the book Winds on the Plain (荒原 风, huāngyuán Feng ), which found a high prevalence among university students. In the text Yuan propagates the institution designated by him as such heroism New (新 英雄 主义, xīn yīngxióngzhǔyì ), which he combined with the belief in the Chinese race. Yuan rejects all attempts by individual political activity, escape or otherwise, to achieve freedom as a fraud of their own race. He favors a totalitarianism to merge the weak, ignorant and selfish individuals of a race in a strong whole.

Yuan Hongbing was also active as a labor rights activist. He took part in a so-called Peace Charter, which was formed after the model of Charter 77. In 1994 he was arrested and forced to leave Beijing. Yuan moved to Guizhou, where he was Dean of the Law Faculty at the Guizhou Normal University. 2004 yuan traveled with his assistant Zhao Jing to Australia, where the two ansuchten on July 28th at the asylum. In June 2005, he supported the dissident Cheng Yonglin in a speech and accused the Chinese government to want to turn Australia into a political colony.

Criticism

The sinologist Geremie R. BARME designated Yuan's ideas as Chinese fascism and compared it with the philosophy of Nietzsche and the New Age Movement. The following four publications Yuan were designated as moderate.