Chai Ling

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Full Name	Chai Ling
Occupation	Human Rights Activist
Date Of Birth	Apr 15, 1966(1966-04-15)
Age	58
Birthplace	Rizhao
Country	People's Republic of China
Horoscope	Aries

Chai Ling Biography

Chai Ling is one of the most popular and richest Human Rights Activist who was born on April 15, 1966 in Rizhao, People's Republic of China. Chai was born the 15th of April of 1966 in Rizhao located in Shandong, China. Both parents of Chai were physicians in the People’s Liberation Army during the 1950s. Chai is the oldest among four kids. The year 1983 was when Chai started her studies through Peking University where she eventually obtained a bachelor’s degree in psychology. Chai got married to her wife, Feng Congde, in January 1987. She was aware of Feng following his arrest on the 1st of January 1987, for participating in a protest for democracy and met him just a couple of days later while heading to the library at the university. Chai along with Feng were wed in the spring of 1988, but they were required to change their identity because they failed to meet the requirements of age to legally marry. Following they got married, Chai was accepted as graduate students in Beijing Normal University. Child Psychology Institute of Beijing Normal University. Chai and Feng began to become more distant during 1989’s Tiananmen Square protests. their union ended in divorce shortly after the protests ended.

In concealing, Chai was nominated by two Norwegian legislators to receive awarding the Nobel Peace Prize. In connection with her participation in the student protests, Chai also received an invitation to study at Princeton University through the China Initiative Program which was an organization that aims to offer education scholarships to refugees. At Princeton, Chai studied politics and international relations at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

After graduating from Princeton in 1993, Chai began working at the consulting firm Bain & Company. While working at Bain & Company, Chai began dating her current husband, Robert A. Maginn Jr., a partner at the firm. The couple married in 2001 and currently reside in the United States, where they have three daughters.

In 1998 Chai earned her M.B.A. from Harvard and founded an Internet company called Jenzabar. Jenzabar provides ERP software to universities across the United States of America. She has been President since founding Jenzabar and Chief Operating Officer since 2001.

Chai was first involved in 1989’s Tiananmen Square Protests because of her position as secretary of the Beijing University Preparatory Committee, who had elected her husband Feng to a leadership position. She gained acclaim as a student leader because of her participation during the students’ hunger strike. Chai claims that the idea behind that hunger strike had been suggested to her in the form of Zhang Boli, another Beijing University student. However, she is also claiming that an official from the national security forces informed Chai that the idea of a strike could cause a reaction by the authorities. The 12th of May, fellow protester Wang Dan approached Chai and advised her of his intention to participate in the strike which, at that time had only forty people. Chai accepted to join in too and in the evening, she delivered an address to the crowd that garnered an enormous amount in support of the and allowed Chai to garner support from students as well as the endorsement of Beijing Students Autonomous Federation.

Chai Ling Net Worth

Chai Ling is one of the richest Human Rights Activist from People's Republic of China. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Chai Ling 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Chai Ling (Chinese: Chai Ling and Pinyin: Chai Ling) (born April 15, 1966 located in Rizhao, Shandong Province, People’s Republic of China) is a Chinese psychologist who was among the student leaders during the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989. She is the creator of All Girls Allowed, an group committed to ending China’s one-child policy. She is also the president and founder of Jenzabar Jenzabar, an enterprise resource management software firm for schools.

The footage from the documentary The Gate of Heavenly Peace will show viewers a small portion of an interview conducted by Chai as well as the reporter Philip Cunningham from May 28 1989, which was a week before Tiananmen Square. Tiananmen Square Incident. In the video, Chai makes the following assertions:

Though Chai Ling was reportedly working on an autobiography as early 1991, her autobiography, A Heart for Freedom: The Remarkable Journey of a Young Dissident, her Daring Escape, and her Quest to Free China’s Daughters, was not published until 2011 .

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Jing Zhang, a Chinese feminist activist, sued Jenzabar Inc., The Jenzabar Foundation, All Girls Allowed and their founder and Jing’s former employer, Chai Ling. Zhang had established her own nonprofit, Women’s Rights in China, when she joined forces with Chai to develop programs to prevent forced abortions in China. Then, she alleges, Chai fired her for being insufficiently religious and for declining to engage in “weekly corporate worship.”

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Chai Ranked on the list of most popular Human Rights Activist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in People's Republic of China. Chai Ling celebrates birthday on April 15 of every year.

Like many of the student leaders during the demonstrations, Chai Ling was also a participant in some of the internal conflicts within the student movement. Chai was highly critical of the Beijing Students’ Autonomous Union. In response to losing control of the square while in hiding on the May 21, Chai criticized the rival leadership group of lacking “leadership quality,” opposing the hunger strike and accomplishing nothing positive for the student movement. In an essay given to reporters in late May, Chai reiterated her role as “chief commander” of the square, while also stating that she refused to make compromises with the Autonomous Student Union of Non-Beijing Universities and other student factions. In this same essay, Chai accused Liu Xiaobo and others of using the student movement as a way to “rebuild their own images,” criticized many participants in the movement for lacking belief, and stated that China’s intellectuals and theorists were “lagging far behind” in their understanding of democracy. Chai was also an adamant supporter of the purity of the student movement and resisted both the participation of non-student protesters, and involvement in the political struggle between government reformers and hardliners. Unlike more moderate leaders within the movement, Chai Ling seemed willing to allow for the movement to end in a violent confrontation. In an interview given in late May, Chai suggested that only when the movement ended in bloodshed would the majority of Chinese realize the importance of the student movement and unite, though she felt that she was unable to share this idea with her fellow students. Chai has since claimed that these remarks were taken out of context and selectively edited. She has also stated that the expectation of violent crackdown was something she had heard from Li Lu and not an idea of her own.