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<strong>Beijing</strong> <strong>Olympics</strong> <strong>2008</strong>: <strong>Winning</strong> <strong>Press</strong> <strong>Freedom</strong><br />
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Gao Yu<br />
Freelancer, Winner of WAN's Golden Pen of <strong>Freedom</strong>,<br />
1st UNESCO <strong>World</strong> <strong>Press</strong> <strong>Freedom</strong> Prize laureate<br />
She is well-known as a columnist both in the Chinese-language press of Hong Kong and in<br />
the United States. In 1988, she became assistant editor of a weekly economic review and<br />
was arrested and jailed for 15 months for her coverage of the 1989 <strong>Beijing</strong> democracy<br />
movement. On Oct. 2, 1993, two days before a planned visit to Columbia University, she<br />
was rearrested and given a six-year sentence for “revealing state secrets.” The <strong>World</strong><br />
Association of Newspapers awarded her its Golden Pen of <strong>Freedom</strong> in 1995, and in 1997,<br />
she was the first winner of UNESCO's annual <strong>World</strong> <strong>Press</strong> <strong>Freedom</strong> Prize.<br />
Agnès Gaudu<br />
China editor, Courrier International magazine<br />
She has a MPhil in Chinese studies and spent two years on an exchange scholarship in<br />
China (1979-1981). She worked at Agence France <strong>Press</strong>e and Reuters before freelancing,<br />
reporting from China throughout the 1980s. In September 1989, she published a book<br />
(Ramsay) on the social effects of China’s “open door” economic policy. In 1997, she<br />
became China editor of the Paris weekly Courrier International, where she is in charge of<br />
selecting and editing materials from the Chinese press to illuminate current issues. In<br />
2005, she conceived and directed a 116-page special issue, La Chine des Chinois: De<br />
Tian'anmen aux JO de Pékin (The China of the Chinese: From Tiananmen to the <strong>Beijing</strong><br />
<strong>Olympics</strong>), devoted to change in China over 10 years.<br />
Merle Goldman<br />
Professor of History Emerita, Boston University<br />
She has a PhD in History and Far Eastern Languages, Harvard University (1964). She is a<br />
Research Associate at the John K. Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard.<br />
She has been an Adjunct Professor at the US State Department’s Foreign Service Institute<br />
since 1998. She has published numerous books, including From Comrade to Citizen: The<br />
Struggle for Political Rights in China, Harvard <strong>Press</strong> 2005, paperback 2007; Sowing the<br />
Seeds of Democracy in China: Political Reform in the Deng Xiaoping Era, Harvard <strong>Press</strong>,<br />
1994; China's Intellectuals: Advise and Dissent, Harvard <strong>Press</strong> 1981, paperback 1987;<br />
Literary Dissent in Communist China, Harvard <strong>Press</strong> 1967, Atheneum paperback 1970; and<br />
China: A New History, Enlarged Edition, co-authored with John K. Fairbank, Belknap <strong>Press</strong><br />
1998, updated 2006. She has been editor or co-editor of eight other books on China and<br />
written more than 70 articles in scholarly journals and in The New York Review of Books,<br />
New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, New Republic and elsewhere.<br />
Guo Guoting (Thomas),<br />
Maritime and human rights lawyer<br />
He has 21 years of experience as a maritime lawyer and four years as a human rights<br />
lawyer. He has also taught law and has published 10 books on law and 500 essays and<br />
case studies. He is currently studying for an LLM degree at the University of Victoria,<br />
British Columbia. He earned an LLB in international law in 1984 from Jilin University,<br />
Changchun, China. From 2002-2005, he was managing partner of the Shanghai Tian-yee<br />
Law Group, focusing on human rights cases involving dissidents and Falun Gong members.<br />
He has written extensively on maritime law.