CURRICULUM VITAE of Fan BaihuaFan Baihua I was born in 1955 in Rugao city, Jiangsu Province, People’s Republic of China. My unlettered parents were all peons before 1949, and they worked as peasant farmers after People’s Republic of China came into existence. When I was a little boy, my family had to struggle below poverty line and was unable to satisfy my need for food and clothing. At that time, I pilfered rice, bean cakes and fruits not only from home but also from my neighbors. I still remember that at the age of 14, I was puzzled by such questions as “How to layout fields if I were community secretariat” and “Why not put ban on the production of cigarette, alcohol and other unhealthy goods”. In primary school, I was unhappy for I was unable to travel with members of the "Red Guard " in order to establishe " revolutionary ties " ; In junior high school, I escaped from the accusation of “little counter-revolutionist” under the protection of my teacher in charge. Under the oppression of local bureaucrats, I worked as a peasant after graduating from a senior high school in 1972. I was abhorrent of bureaucratic prerogative because I had no right to be a soldier, worker, cadre and college student for years. As soon as enrolled in the Department of Philosophy, Nanjing University, in September 1979, I committed a request to quit the Communist Youth League of China, which shocked the authorities of the university. In 1983, I applied the graduate admission to the Department of Philosophy, Nanjing University, with the highest score, specified in History of Western Philosophy, but failed because of political checkup. After graduating in July 1983, I was assigned as a teacher in People’s Police School of Jiangsu Province, and then transferred into Nanjing College of Posts and Telecommunications in May 1985. And I had also finished the graduate courses of the Department of Philosophy, Nanjing University in part time from 1986 to 1988, specified in Marxism Philosophy, and came up to the standards of Master's degree. In 1989 I participated in the movement for corruption-free and democracy initiated by academic students of Beijing, which caused the authorities, under a special checkup , to deprive me of the right of teaching in Nanjing Institute of Posts and Telecommunications on the pretence of “failed to adhere to the Four Cardinal Principles in classroom”. Since September 1989, I was discriminated in the case of title assessment, housing distribution, salary and so on. In the beginning of 1990 I was allocated to work in the library of Marxism-Leninism, Nanjing Institute of Posts and Telecommunications. For several times, my advisor Mr. Guo Luoji made great efforts to help me with restoration but failed. In 1992, I tried to apply the position in the Department of Theory of Nanjing Daily and succeeded to be one of three persons who passed 5 examinations out of above 300 applicants, however, I still failed to pass the political checkup this time. In the beginning of 1993, I became the first layoff teacher as soon as employment system put into practice in Nanjing Institute of Posts and Telecommunications. From then on I was forced to leave the university and look for a job by myself. At that time, I was employed by two small companies in Nanjing, working as a salesman, and then worked as an architecture labor in a small factory in Anhui Province. Then a friend of mine helped me with looking for a temporary job in Modern Special Education Magazine steered by Jiangsu Education and Science Research Institute, which was the only special education magazine supervised by Jiangsu Education Committee at that time. I started a new magazine titled China Extraordinary Education, but as soon as the publication of the first issue, Nanjing Security Bureau forced me to leave the position. And in May 1994 I was divorced from my wife for all sorts of reasons. In order to survive, I strongly urged the authorities of the university to assign me a job, no matter what it is, even the cleaning work. Since the end of 1994, I was set in the library of Nanjing Institute of Posts and Telecommunications to do some slight physical labor till now. Because of my relationships with Mr. Guo Luoji who was exiled to the United States in 1992, Mr. Li Hai who is still in prison now, Mr. Xu Shuiliang who moved to the United States in March 1998 and other famous Chinese political dissents, as well as my involvement in the movement for democracy and liberty, I was summoned for trial by the police for several times. During the Spring Festival of 2000, the Public Security Bureau and Security in Hangzhou illegally took me into custody for four days when I was visiting Mr. Fu Guoyong and Ms. Hu Jiangxia, the wife of Mr. Wang Youcai. In October 2001, the Police searched my house for twice and summoned me overall 18 times, because I post the tough situation of Mr. Guo Shaokun, an famous dissent in Jiangsu who is a handicapped to the international publicly. Publications I have published around 30 papers in Chinese academic journals since 1987. From the corner of 1990’s I switched to non-academic writing and published hundreds-of-thousand-word essays and criticisms in the Chinese newspaper and magazine in home and abroad such as Huanghe,Tianya,Shuwu,Yuhua,Free Forum of Literature, Southern Weekend, China Economic Times, Zawen Bao,China Spring, Open Magazine, Cheng Ming,Trend, HK Economic Journal, Liberty Times and so on, as well as the web magazines such as sixiang.com, rongshu.com and Yecao Web. And I also wrote and edited several books, cooperating with others. The Education of Modern Children's Game, coauthored with Yang Feng, was published by Shandong Tomorrow Publishing House in 1997; Emperor and Gangster, collaborated with Liu Heshou and Wei Tianzong, was published by Shanxi Literature and Art Publishing House in 2000, and The Backbone: A Critical Biography of the Three Generations of Liberal Intellectuals in China, collaborated with Fu Guoyong an others, was published by Hong Kong Open Magazine in 2001. -------------------------- |