Bao Zunxin, 70; Activist Jailed For Tiananmen Square Protest – Los Angeles Times

From Los Angeles Times:

Bao Zunxin, an activist who was jailed for his role in the 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy movement, has died, a fellow dissident said Monday. He was 70.

Once considered one of China’s leading intellectuals, Bao died Sunday in Beijing from a brain hemorrhage, said Liu Xiaobo, a former professor at Beijing Normal University who also spent 20 months in jail for joining the 1989 protests.

Formerly a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences‘ history institute, Bao edited a series of influential publications during the 1980s that promoted Western social science theories. [Full Text]