Xiao Qiang
Xiao Qiang is Founder and Editor-in-Chief of China Digital Times, a bilingual China news website launched in 2003. He is an adjunct professor at UC Berkeley’s School of Information, and Director of the school’s Counter-Power Lab. A theoretical physicist by training, Qiang was born in China and moved to the U.S. in 1986, to study for a Ph.D. in…
Xiao Qiang is Founder and Editor-in-Chief of China Digital Times, a bilingual China news website launched in 2003. He is an adjunct professor at UC Berkeley’s School of Information, and Director of the school’s Counter-Power Lab. A theoretical physicist by training, Qiang was born in China and moved to the U.S. in 1986, to study for a Ph.D. in Astrophysics at the University of Notre Dame. He was Executive Director of the New York-based NGO Human Rights in China from 1991-2002, and vice-chairman of the World Movement for Democracy. He received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2001, and has published numerous articles on China, human rights, and internet politics.