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Dr. Yang's Articles

Selected Articles and Speeches which are translated in English


(Titles below in blue have English copy on www.chinaeweekly.com as of 9/20/03)

 

June 4th Massacre (11):

 

09/89       The Last Shot On the 100th Day of the June 4th Tiananmen Massacre, China Times, Sept 9, 1989.

 

08/90       A Lightly Drifting Heaviness

 

06/91       Night of the Little White Flowers, Jun 8, 1991

 

06/91       Night of the Little White Flowers, Jun 13, 1991

 

06/93       A Speech at the Fourth Anniversary of the June 4th Massacre in Boston, Jun 4, 1993

 

06/94       Our Nation's Destiny is Tied Together with the Democracy Movement, A Speech at the Fifth Anniversary

of the June 4th Massacre in Boston, Jun 4, 1994 (see also China Spring, No. 7, 1994)

 

06/97       To Understand the Mothers or the Butchers?  A Speech at the Eighth Anniversary of June 4th Massacre,

Jun 4, 1997, (see also China Spring, No. 7, 1997)

 

     98       On Family Reunion

 

06/98       What the Chinese Need Most is the June 4th Complex, A Speech at the Ninth Anniversary of the June 4th

Massacre in Boston, Jun 2, 1998 (See also Beijing Spring, No. 7, 1998)

 

06/99       Ten Years of June 4th Massacre, Beijing Spring, July 1, 1999

 

07/00       The Significance of Commemorating June 4th, Beijing Spring, Aug 2002

 

Overseas Democratic Movement (14):

 

09/90                Expectations for the 2nd Congress of the Democratic Front

 

03/91       Getting out of the Doldrums, A Speech at the Eighth Annual Conference of the Grand Coalition of the

                Three People's Principles in the Bay Area

 

04/92       The Role of the Overseas Democracy Movement and the Issues for the Establishment of Political

                Parties, China Spring, No. 4, 1992

 

 

11/92       The Overseas Democracy Movement and the Rights to Returning Home, China Spring, Sept 1992

 

11/98                Developments and Prospective of Human Rights and Democracy in China, Draft for Speech I at the Third

                 International Human Rights Congress in Poland, Oct 14 -18, 199898, Beijing Spring, No. 11, 1998

 

03/99                Inspiration from East European Democratic Activists (with Mr. Chen Kuide), Beijing Spring, March 1999

 

04/99                Reflection on Public Formation of Political Parties, Beijing Spring, Apr 1999

 

12/99       New Issues for Chinese Overseas Democratic Movement - On China's Entrance to the WTO, Draft of

Speech at Round Table Meeting of Chinese Overseas Democratic Movement, Dec 27, 1999, also on Beijing Spring, Apr 2000

 

01/01       End of Impunity Movement is a Part of Democratic MovementBeijing Spring, Apr 2001

 

01/01       Yang Jianli on International Conference for Global Democracy Movement, China Spring, Jan 2001

 

06/01                Constitutional Democracy Movement - an interview with The Voice of China Radio

 

07/01                Globalization, Global Democratization and China - Draft of Opening Speech at International Conference

on the Impact of Globalization on China and Cross Straits Relations

 

08/01       The Constitution of the Federal Republic of China - A Draft Proposal

 

04/02                 Neutralize the Tactics Separating the Domestic and Overseas Pro-democracy Movement

 

Views Critical of the CCP (20):

 

05/91       Our Position and Points of View – An Open Letter to the Chinese Communist Party and the Beijing

                 Government

 

08/91       A Poor Mouse Trying to Eat A Beaver, Evil Can Get Nowhere

 

08/91       An Analysis on the Tactics of the Chinese Communists in its Resistance to Peaceful Evolution

 

01/92       The Political Goals behind the Three Gorges Dam Project, The Common People, Jan 1992

 

05/92       There is No Victor in a Vicious Cycle

 

 

     96       Physical but not Spiritual Freedom  – On the Nature and Lessons of  "Freedom of Association" during

Culture Revolution and its Inspiration on Future Constitutional Democracy

 

07/96       Physical but Not Spiritual Freedom (with Yang Xiaokai), Beijing Spring, July 1996

 

07/97       Ends or Means?

 

09/97       Ends or Means? China Spring, No. 9, 1997

 

05/98       The Ninth People's Congress: No Revolution Whatsoever, Transcript of the Interview by Huasheng Radio,

                China Spring, Nos. 5 and 6, 1998

 

03/99       An Open Letter to Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji

 

07/99       China can Neither Suppress Thoughts nor Block Exchange of Ideas - Draft of Speech at the 7th Award

                 Ceremony for Outstanding News and Cultural Achievements, July 7, 1999

 

11/99                Jealously Guarded Power, Asia Pacific Review, Nov 3, 1999          

 

06/01       The Legitimacy of the CCP Rule and the Constitutional Democratic Movement, Draft of Speech at China

                 Conference for the 12th Anniversary of June 4th in Sydney, Australia, June 2nd, 2001

 

08/01       Trifling Skills Cannot Help the Chinese Communist Party Avoid Its Legitimacy Crisis

 

09/01       No Civilization, No Modernization

 

11/01       A Country will not be Prosperous without Credibility - Thoughts on Open Examination and Selection of

Public Servants in China

 

12/01                 Democratic System and Corruption

 

02/02       Dodge Criminal Charges in the Name of the Nation?

 

03/02                 Comments on Premier Zhu Rongji's Government Work Report, A Dialogue between Dr. Chen Guide and Dr. Yang Jianl       

 

China's Unification (5):

 

06/92       From "One Country, Two Regimes, Multi-modes Consolidation" to "One Nation One System", Draft of

                Speech at the Seminar on June 4th Massacre in Retrospect and Prospect at the 3rd Anniversary of the

Massacre hosted by the Grand Coalition of the Three People's Principles in San Francisco

 

03/96       China's Future in the 21st Century Lies in its Democratic Unification

 

08/97       An Open Letter to the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party on Peaceful Unification of the

                Country, Outpost and Beijing Spring, Aug 1997

 

10/98                Understand the Fundamental Issues in Cross Strait Relations with Basic Logic

 

11/98                Understand the Fundamental Issues in Cross Strait Relations with the Most Basic Logic, Words Prior to the 2nd Talk between Mr. Wang Daohan and Mr. Guzhenpu, Beijing Spring and China Spring, No. 11,

                1998

 

Theoretic Studies and Analyses (18):

 

01/93       An Analysis of the Principle of the Virtuous Cycle, China Spring, June 1993

 

05/94       China's Democratization and the New Authoritarianism, Contemporary China Research, May 1994

 

12/95                Popularize Instead of Mystify Democracy- Dr. Yang Jianli on People's Confidence as the Corner Stone of

                 Constitutional Democracy, Outpost Monthly, Dec 1995

 

     95       Timely and Appropriate Democratization is Necessary and Feasible -- On also the Historical Merits and

                Demerits of Neo-Authoritarianism

 

07/96                Intellectuals and China's Contemporary Politics, Boston Asia Radio Air Talk, July 26, 1996

 

11/97       The Revolution of 1911 and Modern China's Nation-Building Spirit, China Spring, No. 11, 1997

 

11/98       Chinese Intellectuals' CCP Passion and Moral Standard  An Exclusive Interview with An Qi, Beijing

Spring, No. 11, 1998

 

01/99       The Order-Disorder-New Order Cycle - Political Transformation and the Establishment of

                 Constitutional Democracy in China, Draft of Speech at China in the 21th Century Conference, Jan 23, 1999

 

01/99                Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Chinese Culture, Beijing Spring, No. 1, 1999

 

 

05/99       CCP's Amendments to the PRC Constitution and Options of China's Constitutional Democracy (with Peng

                Zhuo), Beijing Spring, May 1999

 

08/99       Politics in Culture and Culture in Politics, Opening, Aug 1999

 

09/99       Political Transformation and the Establishment of Constitutional Democracy in China, Beijing Spring,

            Sept 1999

 

09/99       The Order-Disorder-New Order Cycle - Political Transformation and the Establishment of

                 Constitutional Democracy in China, Beijing Spring, Sept 1999

 

02/00       Is There a Democratic Wing inside the Chinese Communist Party? Feb 14, 2000

 

05/00       A Theory of Five Parties, Draft of Speech at the Conference on Taiwan's General Election and China's

                 Democratic Future, China Spring and Outpost, May 2000

 

08/00       The Liberals and the New Leftists (with Dr. Chen Kuide), China Spring, Aug 2000

 

11/00       A Theory of Five Parties, Asia Pacific Review, Nov 2, 2000          

 

04/01       Is There a Democratic Wing inside the Chinese Communist Party? Beijing Spring, Apr 2001

 

China's Economy (5)

 

05/93       The Difference of Two Types of Pressures Resulted from the Commercialization of Ruling Power

 

07/93       An Evaluation of Deng Xiaoping's Economic Reforms and a Prediction for China's Economy in the Post-

Deng Era

 

07/93       Periodic Economic Crises – Unbalanced Freedom, Order and Equality

 

08/95       On China's Power Economy (with Xu Xin and He Xiaochuan), China Spring, Aug - Oct 1995

 

11/95       On the Power Economy of the Chinese Communists (Two Parts), Mainland China, Nov - Dec 1995

 

Commentaries or Reviews of Current Affairs (14):

 

05/93                Reflection on the Daqiuzhuang Village Incident, Boston Review, May 2, 1993

 

12/93                Reflection on Mao Zedong Fad – A Commemoration on Mao's Hundredth Birthday

 

 

05/96       Rid of Nationalistic Sentiment and Safeguard Hong Kong's Democracy and Freedom, China Spring, May

1996

 

01/97                Nationalism and Democracy – A Second Reflection on 1997

 

     97       Love Hong Kong without Loving the People there and be Patriotic without Passion to Fellow Countrymen?

 

06/98                Reflection on Clinton's Visit to China

 

07/98       Let Me Answer Your Questions – A Letter to the Students of Beijing Universit, July 1, 1998

 

08/98       The Political Implications of the Chinese Democratic Party Incident, Aug 20, 1998

 

12/98                Taiwan's General Election from My Perspective

 

12/99       A Political Review of China in 1999 (with Dr. Chen Kuide)Dec 1999

 

01/01       The Rising of the "Democracy International" (with Dr. Chen Kuide)Jan 3, 2001, Taipei

 

03/01       The Rising of the "Democracy International" in the World, Opening, March 2001

 

04/01       Year 2000: China Political Review, A Dialogue between Dr. Chen Kuide and Dr. Yang Jianli,, China

            Spring, Apr 2001

               

Grass-root Advacates (18):

 

05/93       An Appeal

 

05/93       A Call to Endorse Mr. Wei Jingsheng for the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize

 

05/93       Let's Start Working on China's "House of Representatives"

 

12/94       Strive for Mr. Wei Jingsheng to be Awarded the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize, China Spring, Dec 1994

 

03/95                Continue to Strive for Mr. Wei Jingsheng to Be Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, China Spring, March

                1995

 

10/95       A Letter to the US Congress, Oct 14, 1995

 

10/97       Please Uphold a Human Rights Concept That Does Not Degrade the Chinese People, Oct 27, 1997

 

11/97       The Chinese also Need Human Rights - Draft of Speech at the Harvard Rally in Protest of Jiang Zemin's

                Visit, Nov 1, 1997

 

     97       The Questions We Should Ask Jiang Zemin

 

12/97       Please Accept the Human Rights Concept that does not Humiliate the Chinese People, Beijing Spring, No.12, 1997

 

02/98       Fight, Flight and Fight, Draft of Speech at Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship,

                Tufts University, Feb 28, 1998

 

10/98                Universality vs. Particularity - Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Chinese Culture, Draft of Speech II at the Third International Human Rights Congress, Poland, Oct 14 -18, 1998

 

11/98                Transcript of the Speech at the International Human Rights Congress in Poland, Beijing Spring, No. 11,

                1998

 

08/00       Draft of Speech at a Rally Protesting Li Peng, Aug 30, 2000

 

10/00                Supporting Each Other in Our Common Cause of Fighting Dictatorship, Oct 5, 2000

 

05/01       Our Appeal, China Spring, May 2001

 

06/01       A Call from Dr. Yang Jianli and Mr. Feng Congde for Debates on Standard of Patriots

 

Book Reviews/Commentaries (4):

 

     97       Who can Say No to the True History - Forewords for "China Can Say No, But What Do the Chinese

Communists Say?”

 

10/97                Postscripts for "Behind the Red Patriotism", Beijing Spring, No. 10, 1997

 

02/99       The "Tibet Heat" Returns to Chinese Society - Forewords for "Dialogue between the Dalai Lama and the

Han Chinese

 

08/01                Recommendation to "A Yuan-he Constitutional Transformation", a book review

 

Non-Violence Advocates (6):

 

09/01       We Must Break the Cycle of Violence - Draft of Opening Speech at the Second Interethnic Leadership

                 Workshop

 

01/02       On Non-Violence Principles and Movement - Draft of Speech at the 4th Annual Round Table Meeting of

                Chinese Overseas Democratic Movement, Washington DC

 

02/02       A Debate between Dr. Yang Jianli and Dr. Xiang Xiaoji: Principles of Nonviolence

 

02/02       On Non-Violence Principles and Movement: the Second Paper

 

03/02       On Non-Violence Principles and Movement: the Third Paper

 

03/02       On Non-Violence Principles and Movement: the Fourth Paper

 

Miscellaneous (25):

 

08/90       Make Friends, Change Positions, and Time Difference, Press Freedom Guardian, Aug 1990

 

10/90       Ice-cream and Ten Monologues, The Square, Oct 1990

 

10/90       A Memorial Speech for the Hungarians Who Died for Their Freedom in 1956, San Francisco, CA, USA,

                Oct 21, 1990

 

10/92       The Sacred and Arduous Road

 

11/92       Contend and Search, Contend, No. 11, 1992

 

02/93       A Holy Crusade, Feb 24, 1993

 

06/93       On Moral Resources

 

03/95       Who is Hanging a Bell on a Cat's Neck? China Spring, March 1995

 

04/97       We cannot Change the People in the Past, but Can Influence the People in the Future, Beijing Spring,

            No. 1997

 

10/97       A Letter to the University Newspaper of Harvard

 

10/97       A Radio One-on-One Debate between Dr. Yang Jianli and Professor Vogel

 

08/98       Other People's Athlete's Foot and Your Own Cancer, Aug 15, 1998

 

02/99                Communiqué on the Visit to the Tibetan Government in Exile, Feb 23, 1999

 

07/99       Opening Speech at the Conference on Party Politics in China, July 17, 1999

 

09/00       Build the "Fourth Branch of the Government" First, China Spring, Sept 2000

 

10/00       There Must be a Better Way, Draft of Opening Speech at Interethnic Leadership Conference, Oct 2, 2000

                see also China Spring, Nov 2000

 

10/00       Please Remember this Warm and Friendly Night, Oct 4, 2000

 

02/01       China's Diplomatic Strategies with the Unite States and Russia, A Dialogue between Dr. Chen Kuide and

Dr. Yang Jianli, Feb 18, 2001

 

03/01       A Dialog between Dr. Chen Kuide and Dr. Yang Jianli on TMD and NMD

 

09/01       On the Tragedy of Sept. 11 in the United States and China's Response, A Dialogue between

Dr. Chen Kuide and Dr. Yang Jianli, Jan 9, 2001

 

10/01       Politics in Humanity and Humanity in Politics - Written in the Eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival

 

11/01       China and the War on Afghanistan, A Dialogue between Dr. Chen Kuide and Dr. Yang Jianli

 

12/01       Topics beyond China's Entrance to WTO, Dec 2, 2001

 

01/02       Hopes in the New Year, Jan 1, 2002

 

01/02       Mourn with Deep Grief for our beloved Dr. Liu Kaisheng, Jan 19, 2002

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