Wúěr Kāixī (吾爾開希 Uyghur: Uerkesh Daolet) (1968-) is a famous Uyghur student leader in the Tiananmen protests of 1989. He achieved prominence while studying at Beijing Normal University as a hunger striker who rebuked Premier of the People's Republic of China Li Peng on national television. Uyghurs (also called Uighurs, Uygurs, or Uigurs) (Simplified Chinese: 维吾尔; Traditional Chinese: 維吾爾; pinyin: ) are a Turkic ethnic group of people living in northwestern China (mainly in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, where they are the dominant ethnic group together with Han people), Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan. ... The Unknown Rebel — This famous photo, taken by Associated Press photographer Jeff Widener, depicts a lone protester who single-handedly halted the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour. ... Beijing Normal University (Pinyin: Bei Jing Shi Fan Da Xue); (Chinese characters: 北京师范大学) History Beijing Normal University grew out of the faculty of Education of the Metropolitan University founded in 1902. ... A hunger strike is a method of non-violent resistance in which participants fast as an act of political protest or to achieve a goal such as a policy change. ... The Premier ( Chinese: 总理 pinyin: zŏnglĭ), sometimes referred to as the Prime Minister, is the Chairman of the State Council of the Peoples Republic of China and head of Central Peoples Government. ... Lĭ Péng (李鵬) (b. ...

He fled to France and then studied at Harvard University in the United States. Afterward he emigrated to Taiwan, where he has started a family and continued to host radio programs. He also appear frequently on television programmes as a political commentator, who supports the idea of "One China Under Democracy" (i.e. reunification of mainland China and Taiwan under a democratic political system). He reportedly expressed his hope of taking part in Legislative Yuan elections as a representative of Kuomintang, which eventually did not nominate him as one of the party's candidates. The French Republic or France (French: République française or France) is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in western Europe, and which is further made up of a collection of overseas islands and territories located in other continents. ... Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League. ... The United States of America — also referred to as the United States, the U.S.A., the U.S., America, the States, or (archaically) Columbia—is a federal republic of 50 states located primarily in central North America (with the exception of two states: Alaska and Hawaii). ... Taiwan is mostly mountainous in the east, but gradually transitions to gently sloping plains in the west (satellite photo by NASA). ... The Legislative Yuan (Chinese: 立法院 pinyin: Lìfǎ Yùan, literally law-establishing court) is the legislative body of the Republic of China, which currently administers Taiwan, Penghu, Quemoy, and Matsu Islands. ... The Kuomintang (KMT) or Nationalist Party of China (Traditional: 中國國民黨; Simplified: 中国国民党; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Chung-kuo Kuo-min-tang; Tongyong Pinyin: Jhongguo Guomindang) is a conservative political party currently active in the Republic of China (ROC) on Taiwan. ...

External link

• Witnessing Tiananmen: Student talks fail (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3757433.stm) - BBC interview
• Let's not forget what China is (http://www.iht.com/articles/127351.html) - International Herald Tribune article