Yang, whose legal name is Yang Jun, was born in Hubei, central China, in 1965, to a poor family reportedly unremarkable in its orthodoxy. “You need to differentiate the two parts of Yang Hengjun, one is the orthodox communist bureaucrat, one is the liberal democrat. The experience was chastening, friends say, but Yang found his metier, and his audience, in his online political writing. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Yang Hengjun wrote pieces on reform of the Chinese political system in the final days before he was arrested. Yang’s online store sold US-made luxury handbags, vitamins, baby formula and watches.

Source: The Guardian October 04, 2019 19:52 UTC