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]
