Shen Tong

Quick Facts

Full Name	Shen Tong
Occupation	Entrepreneur
Date Of Birth	Jul 30, 1968(1968-07-30)
Age	56
Birthplace	Beijing
Country	China
Horoscope	Cancer

Shen Tong Biography

Shen Tong is one of the most popular and richest Entrepreneur who was born on July 30, 1968 in Beijing, China. Shen Tong was born in 1968 in Beijing. He attended Peking University from 1986 to 1989. He was also among the students who led in the 1989 protests on Tiananmen Square. The family lives within New York City along with his two daughters and son. His parents and his sibling Shen Qing both went to Peking University, and his mother is a doctor.

While he was studying in Massachusetts, he established his own Democracy for China Fund to help the democratic movement in China and promote the idea of freedom of the press and human rights. Shen Tong also helped established Radio Free Asia with bipartisan efforts under the leadership of senator Joe Biden in the 1990s. American non-governmental activist Marshall Strauss and program coordinator Juanita Scheyett-Cheng assisted Shen create and run the Fund. Coretta Scott King John Kerry, Jeane Kirkpatrick Nancy Pelosi, Kerry Kennedy and many more Western NGO and political figures and sinologists were also associated with Shen’s organisation during the 1990s. In 1991, the Congressional Human Rights Delegation to China in 1991 , led by Nancy Pelosi and Republican congressman John R. Miller was coordinated in conjunction with the Democracy for China Fund with the aid and assistance of Hong Kong Democrats. The trip he made in 1992 back to China was the cause of his and his accomplices being arrested. He was freed and removed from the country after two months in prison under pressure from the international community specifically by the US Congress as well as in the Presidential Campaign of Bill Clinton as well as the Vatican and European governments. in May of 1993 just days prior to renewing China’s Popular Nation status in the United States from government officials of the US Government, Shen was scheduled to make a presentation to the United Nations press club, but was rebuffed from the event by UN General Secretary Boutros Boutros-Ghali because of a an outrage against his Chinese government. Shen is as well connected to Chinese writers and activists who are dissidents, such as Liu Xiaobo, Wu’er Kaixi, Hu Ping, Ma Jian, Shi Tao, the Tibetan exile leader Dalai Lama, and the Taiwanese politician Ma Yingjiu. He is among the narrators in the document Tiananmen Affair: People Versus the Party , produced by PBS, BBC, and the continental European television networks.

Shen moved from Massachusetts to New York, and since 2000 focused more on creative writing and businesses with impact and purpose. He founded Food-X and FoodFutureCo in New York City while collaborating with Dan Barber, Dorothy Cann Hamilton, Michael Moss, and Michel Nischan. He has several dozen publicly known commercial and impact investments.

He was the founder and president of the company VFinity, which makes software tools and web applications for multimedia and multilingual search, media production, archiving, and media distribution. The founding idea is based on two patents. He is known for his promotion of “Context Media” partially due to his keynote speech at a super session of National Association of Broadcasters in Las Vegas, 2007. He founded the TV production company B&B Media Production and invested in bookstores and publishing in Beijing. B&B Media Production had created and produced several highly circulated and acclaimed TV programs, including the national weekend primetime show Tell It Like It Is during its first season.

As writer, he also co-authored his publication Almost a Revolution, published in 1990. It is a memoir of his growing up in China and his experiences during the Tiananmen Square democracies. He pursued a wide-ranging writing career that included the political commentaries, academic writings, literary prose, film critics and film scripts in English as well as in Chinese as well as publications from China using the name Rong Di. He was awarded an the distinction of an honorary Ph.D. as of 1991 at St. Ambrose University.

Shen Tong Net Worth

Shen Tong is one of the richest Entrepreneur from China. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Shen Tong 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was co-chair of the committee on dialogue alongside the Chinese government in the protests for democracy in China. He was walking on Changan Avenue when Chinese troops fired on students. He had previously gained an Chinese passport to take a biology course in Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts in the United States, so even although he was sought to be detained by the Chinese government, he was allowed to board a plane just six days following the shooting on the 4th of June 1989. He was able walk unnoticed through security and police officials at Beijing airport. Beijing airport, which could indicate greater support for the student democratic movement in comparison to what the Chinese government believed in the past. A few of the biographical works on Shen Tong are Tiananmen Exiles and the Standoff at Tiananmen.

Shen also established a an education and culture-focused NGO in the mid-1990s. the center located in Budapest for liberal writers, journalists, scholars and educators interested in the transitional state with funds from the Open Society Institute and Central European University of George Soros, a literature review publication featuring Chinese dissident writers and poets with help of Allen Ginsberg, Susan Sontag as well as Elie Wiesel.

In films and television, Shen has been an actor, producer, and film festival sponsor and speaker. Shen Tong starred in Out of Exile with co-star Sharif Atkins in 2000. He worked with Arte, ABC News and Jean-François Bizot’s Actuel magazine to produce Clandestins en Chine, which premiered in a Paris theater and on Arte in 1992. He co-starred with actress Hu Zongwen in a made-for-TV two parts movie, which received the 6th Fei Tian National Award in 1986.

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Facts & Trivia

Shen Ranked on the list of most popular Entrepreneur. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in China. Shen Tong celebrates birthday on July 30 of every year.