Chaohua Wang is a freelance essayist and researcher, with a Ph.D. in modern Chinese literature from the University of California, Los Angeles

University of California, Los Angeles

The University of California, Los Angeles is a public research university located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, USA. It was founded in 1919 as the "Southern Branch" of the University of California and is the second oldest of the ten campuses...

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Wang is the daughter of a former professor of Chinese literature at Beijing University. In 1989 she was an M.A. student in modern Chinese literature at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. She was a member of the standing committee of the Beijing Autonomous Association of College Students in the spring of 1989 during the demonstrations in Tiananmen Square

Tiananmen Square protests of 1989

The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, also known as the June Fourth Incident in Chinese , were a series of demonstrations in and near Tiananmen Square in Beijing in the People's Republic of China beginning on 15 April 1989...

 and was put on the Chinese government's "21 Most Wanted Beijing Student Leaders" list. She spent more than six months in hiding before going to the U.S. in early 1990.

Wang is the editor of One China, Many Paths

One China, Many Paths

One China, Many Paths, edited by Chaohua Wang. A collection of essays by Chinese thinkers, reflecting the new thinking that developed in the 1990s...

, a collection of essays by contemporary Chinese intellectuals published by Verso in 2003.

Sources

Wang, Chaohua (Editor and Translator) One China, Many Paths Verso, London, 2005. ISBN 9781844675357

Wang Ban Review of One China, Many Paths (2006) at MCLC Resource Center, Ohio State University