Yuan Hongbing (; 1952 - ) is a Chinese Australian jurist, novelist, and Chinese dissident. Biography Born in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, Yuan's parents worked at the Inner Mongolia Daily. During the Cultural Revolution, Yuan was sent to the countryside to work as a "sent-down youth". In 1972, he became a factory worker in a local chemical factory. During that time, he organized his colleagues to engage in political campaigns. Following the reinstatement of university entrance exams, he enrolled at Peking University to study law. He graduated from Peking University with a master's degree in criminal procedure in 1986 and went on to head the School of Criminal Procedural Law at Peking University. At the time of the Tiananmen Square protests and massacre in 1989, Yuan created and organized The Peking University Faculty Support Association, a political organization in support of the student movement. His creation of the organization put him under surveillance by the government. In 1990, Yuan published Winds on the Plain (), a book which gained a considerable following among university students. In it Yuan propounds what he calls "new heroicism" () with a cause that is primarily concerned with the "fate of the Chinese race." Yuan has also been active as a labour organiser. He was involved with Charter 08, a "Peace Charter" reportedly modeled on the Czechoslovak Charter 77. He also set up an unauthorized, politically liberal union – the League for the Protection of Working People of the People's Republic of China. In 1994, he was detained by government authorities and forced to leave Beijing. The US Department of State had mentioned his case in the China part of its Human Rights Report in 1994 and 1995. Yuan went into exile in the remote province of Guizhou from 1994, and became the Dean of the law school at Guizhou Normal University while under custody. In 2004, Yuan and his assistant, Zhao Jing, traveled to Australia, and on 28 July, they sought political asylum. In June 2005 he accused the Chinese government of attempting to turn Australia into a "political colony". In 2009, Yuan published his book Taiwan Disaster (), a highly critical account of contemporary Taiwanese society and politics and detailed his views on the role of the CCP in pursuing unification in Taiwan. In 2011, he declared that Hu Jintao had masterminded the death of the 10th Panchen Lama. In October 2013, Yuan released