Tuesday, July 09, 2013

Liberal Peking University professor threatened with expulsion, South China
Morning Post: A renowned professor has confirmed online rumors that his
peers will decide whether he will be expelled from China's most eminent
university after he made a series of remarks in favor of free speech and
constitutional governance. Economics professor Xia Yeliang of Peking
University was told by his department that his fate would be decided by a
faculty vote, he told the South China Morning Post on Monday. "They told me
it's because of all the things I have said and written," Xia said. "They
have threatened me before, but this is the first time they will vote on my
expulsion."

Over the last years, Xia has been one of the most outspoken liberal voices
among Chinese academics. A friend of imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Liu Xiaobo, he was among the first signatories of Charter 08, the call for
personal freedoms that landed Liu in jail. ...

I wanted to link to his Twitter account, but I couldn't find it:

... Recently, he has been writing critical remarks - on Twitter and Sina
Weibo - about party censorship and President Xi Jinping's "Chinese Dream"
slogan.

Several, at least seven he said, of his Sina Weibo accounts have been
deleted...

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'Liberal Peking University Professor Threatened with Expulsion'

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Liberal Peking University professor threatened with expulsion, South China
Morning Post: A renowned professor has confirmed online rumors that his
peers will decide whether he will be expelled from China's most eminent
university after he made a series of remarks in favor of free speech and
constitutional governance. Economics professor Xia Yeliang of Peking
University was told by his department that his fate would be decided by a
faculty vote, he told the South China Morning Post on Monday. "They told me
it's because of all the things I have said and written," Xia said. "They
have threatened me before, but this is the first time they will vote on my
expulsion."

Over the last years, Xia has been one of the most outspoken liberal voices
among Chinese academics. A friend of imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Liu Xiaobo, he was among the first signatories of Charter 08, the call for
personal freedoms that landed Liu in jail. ...

I wanted to link to his Twitter account, but I couldn't find it:

... Recently, he has been writing critical remarks - on Twitter and Sina
Weibo - about party censorship and President Xi Jinping's "Chinese Dream"
slogan.

Several, at least seven he said, of his Sina Weibo accounts have been
deleted...