Changping

Chang Ping (English: Chang Ping, born June 22, 1968), whose real name is Zhang Ping, is a journalist, writer and dissident in the People's Republic of China. He is the chief curator of the June Fourth Memory and Human Rights Museum. He was considered by the American journalist Zhang Yan in the New York Review of Books to be one of China's most famous current affairs commentators. He is a native of Xichong, Sichuan. Since the 1990s, Chang Ping has co-founded and edited a number of newspapers, magazines and electronic media in mainland China and Hong Kong. He is a representative figure among China's "liberal intellectuals" and has won many honors such as "Southern Weekend Annual Tribute Columnist", "Hong Kong Human Rights Journalism Award", "Top 100 Chinese Public Intellectuals", and "Canadian International Press Freedom Award". Since the end of 2010, he has been banned from publishing any articles in mainland Chinese media. In 2011, Chang Ping founded the current affairs magazine "Sunshine Current Affairs" in Hong Kong, but the Hong Kong government refused to issue him a work visa. Later, he lived in Germany as a visiting writer until now. Changping writes columns in many media outlets in mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia, Germany and other places. His story was featured in the New York Times , "The New York Review of Books" , British "Guardian" , German "Business Weekly", Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Taiwan "Shangbao" Wait for international media to pay attention. Changping has also published novels, poems and other literary works, as well as a music album "Freedom Cage".