Friday, December 11, 2009 at 7:08PM | in Governance, Religion Who is Xu Zhiyong?
According to Foreign Policy magazine, he's number 62 on their list of 100 Top Global Thinkers:
What is he reading?
Sounds like an interesting person!
HT: Munir
Xu is, in the words of the New Yorker's Evan Osnos, "as close as China gets to a public-interest icon." The legal scholar and activist has emerged as a vocal champion of victims' rights in just about every major legal scandal of recent years, offering pro bono advice to victims of police brutality, tainted milk products, and extrajudicial detention. Reflecting Xu's strong belief in working for change within the system, the primary mission of Gongmeng, the legal think tank he co-founded in 2003, is to protect the rights to which Chinese citizens are theoretically already entitled.
What is he reading?
Reading list: Baha'i Sacred Anthology; a history of Chinese philosophy; the Quran
Sounds like an interesting person!
HT: Munir
Friday, December 11, 2009 at 7:08PM | in Governance, Religion 
Reader Comments (1)
How on earth did he get hold of a (presumably somewhat obscure) Baha'i book in China?