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Wei Jingsheng Foundation News and Article Release Issue: A32-W7
魏京生基金会新闻与文章发布号：A32-W7
Release Date: October 15, 2003
发布日：2003年10月15日
Topic: Wei Jingsheng Gave Lecture at John Hopkins University, etc.
标题：魏京生在约翰霍普金斯大学讲课
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Wei Jingsheng Gives Lecture at John Hopkins University, etc.
On September 30, 2003, Mr. Wei Jingsheng gave a lecture at John
Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies at the
invitation of the reputed professor and author Ms. Anne Thurston.
Professor Thurston is an expert on China Studies, and also one of the
first few well-known American Scholars who petitioned to Deng XiaoPing
for the release of Wei Jingsheng in the 1980s and thus received
international attention on the matter. This year she offered two
classes about China. One of them is "Human Rights and Development of
Democracy in China". The week of September 30 was devoted to the topic
of the "Democracy Wall" with nearly half of her reading assignments
related to Mr. Wei Jingsheng. (See link at: http://www.sais-jhu.edu/bin/s/y/HRDemocracyofChinaThurston.pdf)
Wei's appearance stimulated enough interest that about half of the
students attending were not even from Professor Thurston's own class
and had to give up their own classes. After Wei gave a brief lecture,
a question and answer session filled the rest of the two-hour class.
An unofficial session lasted for nearly another two hours afterwards.
During the class, Wei outlined his maturing process in understanding
democracy, reasons and background concerning what he did, the social
circumstances of China, some anecdotes of people involved, and other
issues he had not talked much about in the past. As usual, Wei was
asked how he could keep optimistic and what was in his mind when he
was sitting in the solidarity confinement of death row.
Since he arrived in the free world, Wei Jingsheng has been invited to
numerous prestigious universities and institutions for research,
lectures and seminars. Besides this John Hopkins University visit, a
small sample of the Universities in the USA which Wei has visited
include: Columbia University, University Of California at Berkeley,
Harvard, Yale, Tufts University, University of California at Irvine,
University of Toledo, University of Virginia at Richmond, and Iowa
University. He has also given lectures all over Europe and in Canada,
Taiwan, Australia and New Zealand, such as Oxford University,
University of Paris and University of Toronto. His subjects include
but are not limited to: Current China Affairs, China-US Relations,
International relations, US foreign policy issues, China legal
systems, Chinese freedom of press and freedom of association, Chinese
Communist Party and its opposition force, and China labor issues.
Wei Jingsheng believes in the importance of education and a record of
history. He hopes to win worldwide support for Chinese human rights
and democracy by these approaches, and wishes to help others see the
real China and get to know those people who are interested in China
and are willing to help our democracy and human rights cause. Despite
his busy schedule, he tries to accommodate this type of request when
he can. Any interested party may write to Ciping Huang via hcp@weijingsheng.org
to inquire further.
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中文版
Wei Jingsheng Foundation News and Article Release Issue: A32-W7
魏京生基金会新闻与文章发布号：A32-W7
Release Date: October 15, 2003
发布日：2003年10月15日
Topic: Wei Jingsheng Gave Lecture at John Hopkins University, etc.
标题：魏京生在约翰霍普金斯大学讲课
Original Language Version: English
(English at beginning, Chinese version at the end)
Please visit our website if you have problem to read Chinese in this
issue
此号以英文为准（英文在前，中文在后）
魏京生基金会及中国民主运动海外联席会议以推动中国的人权与民主为己任。
我们欢迎任何形式的帮助与贡献。我们愿与世界上为人权与民主而奋斗的人们一起努力。
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魏京生在约翰霍普金斯大学的国际研究学院讲课
2003年9月30日，魏京生先生应邀在约翰霍普金斯大学的国际研究学院讲课。讲课的题目是“中国的人权与民主化进程”课程中的“民主墙”一章。主持的石文安（Anne
Thurston）教授不仅是个著名的作家，也是八十年代少有的几个为了魏京生而向邓小平请愿的海外中国问题专家之一。她在约翰霍普金斯大学的国际研究学院开两门有关中国问题的课。另一门是“中国的经济变化所带来的社会变迁”。（有关石文安教授的课程请参见：http://www.sais-jhu.edu/bin/s/y/HRDemocracyofChinaThurston.pdf与http://www.sais-jhu.edu/bin/g/u/GrassrootsChinaThurston.pdf。）9月30号的那一周是“民主墙”周。那一周的必读与选读教材中有一半是有关魏京生的内容。
来聆听魏先生的讲课的学生中有将近一半是从其它班上“逃课”而来的。在两个小时长的讲授与答问的正式课程结束后，魏先生又在校园里与学生们交流了近两个小时。
在他的讲座中，魏先生谈到了他自身的民主意识的成长过程，原因及当时的社会背景与环境。他还谈到了一些不常提及的往事及有关人物。他也回答了他常常要回答的问题：面对死亡的可能，如何保持自信；坐了十八多年的牢之后，如何乐观地对待人生。
自从他来到自由世界，魏京生先生应邀去过很多名牌大学与研究院作过研究，上过课，也给过讲座。除了这次的约翰霍普金斯大学外，魏先生还去过的美国大学包括有：哥伦比亚大学(Columbia
U.),加州伯克利大学（UC Berkeley）,哈佛（Harvard）,耶鲁(Yale),塔夫大学（Tufts U.）,加州尔湾大学（UC
Irvine）,托利多大学（U. Toledo）,弗吉尼亚大学(U. Virginia), 爱尔华大学(Iowa U.).
他也去欧洲，加拿大，台湾，澳大利亚，新西兰等地讲过课，如牛津大学(Oxford U.), 巴黎大学, 多伦多大学(U.
Toronto)等。魏先生的讲课内容包括但不限于:中国问题，美中关系，国际关系，美国对外政策，中国的法律与法制，中国的新闻与结社自由，中国共产党及其反对派，中国的劳工问题。
魏京生先生相信教育与历史之重要性，也希望借这样的机会来广交世界各界关心中国及其自由民主化进程的人们以求赢得更广泛的支持。因此，尽管他很忙，他依然尽力而为。有关方面的查询，请电邮黄慈萍。她的电子信箱是：hcp@weijingsheng.org。
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