From Tiananmen ‘89 to Charter ‘08: China’s Road to Democracy

Toronto Association for Democracy in China

Tiananmen + 20

Public Forum

From Tiananmen ‘89 to Charter ‘08: China’s Road to Democracy

May 31, 2009 (Sunday) 1 - 4 pm

Ontario Institute of Studies in Education (OISE) Auditorium
University of Toronto, 252 Bloor St. West, Toronto

Welcome

Kari DEHLI

Chair, Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education

Remarks

Hon. Consiglio DI NINO

Senator, Canadian Parliament

Panel One: Looking Back

WANG Dan

Ph.D. Harvard University and former Tiananmen student leader

CAI Chongguo

China Labour Bulletin, France and former union organizer

Jan WONG

Writer-Journalist and former Globe and Mail Beijing bureau chief

SHENG Xue

Moderator

Panel Two: Moving Forward

Charles BURTON

Professor of Political Science, Brock University and former attaché, Canadian Embassy, Beijing

GAO Wenqian

Senior Policy Advisor, Human Rights in China and former official biographer of Zhou Enlai

Rowena HE Xiaoqing

SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University

Cheuk KWAN

Moderator

Supporting Organizations

Amnesty International, Canada-Hong Kong Link, China Labour Bulletin,

China Rights Network, Federation for a Democratic China,

Human Rights in China, PEN Canada, Rights and Democracy