Gao Xin

Gao Xin is a Chinese academic and activist. He was a lecturer at Beijing Normal University and a Communist Party member. In 1989, he joined a hunger strike as part of the pro-democracy protests in China that lead to the Tiananmen Square crackdown. Gao left China in 1991 and was once a visiting scholar at Harvard University’s Fairbank Centre for Chinese Studies. He writes a column for U.S.-based Radio Free Asia. A prolific writer, Gao has published about 10 Chinese-language books on elite Chinese politics, including co-authoring “Communist China’s Princelings”, a best seller about the sons and daughters of China’s incumbent, retired and late political leaders.