| Bao Zunxin | |
| Native Name: | 包遵信 |
| Native Name Lang: | zh |
| Birth Date: | September 1937 |
| Birth Place: | Wuhu County, Anhui, Republic of China |
| Death Place: | Dongfang Hospital Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Fengtai District, Beijing, China |
| Nationality: | Chinese |
| Alma Mater: | Peking University |
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Bao Zunxin (; September 1937 - 28 October 2007) was a Chinese historian and political dissident who was arrested and jailed by the Chinese government for his role in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.[1]
Born in September 1937 in Wuhu County, Anhui, China, he was a 34th-generation descendant of Bao Zheng. Bao graduated from Beijing University in 1964. He was a scholar at the History Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Bao also taught as a professor at Beijing Normal University.[1]
In 1989 Bao spoke out in support of pro-democracy protesters who marched in the Tiananmen Square democracy protests.[1] Bao also signed a petition which declared that China was still ruled by an emperor.[1] The "emperor" which the declaration referred to was the supposedly retired Chinese Communist Party leader Deng Xiaoping.[1]
Bao was arrested after the Tiananmen Square massacre, and was charged with "counterrevolutionary propaganda and incitement."[2] He was sentenced to 5 years in prison for his participation in the pro-democracy movement.[1] He served years of his sentence before being released in November 1992.[1] [3]
Bao died of a brain hemorrhage at the Dongfang Hospital Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Fengtai District, Beijing on October 28, 2007.[1] [4] He was 70 years old.