Wu Fangcheng / 吴方城
Classification: Overseas democracy leader; Chinese Alliance for Democracy (CAD)
Geographic context: United States
Period: 1980s–2013
Profile
Wu Fangcheng was a long-term overseas Chinese democracy organizer and leader of the Chinese Alliance for Democracy. Radio Free Asia’s 2013 memorial reporting identifies him as a former CAD chairman, an early member of the organization, and a Kentucky-based democracy activist.
Movement-history records report that Wu joined CAD in 1985, participated publicly in organizing from 1986, was elected chairman in 1994, and was reelected in 1996 and 1998. The chairman role is independently corroborated; the precise election sequence and tenure boundaries remain subject to confirmation from original congress records.
Wu died on April 16, 2013, in Lexington, Kentucky, after a cerebral hemorrhage, according to independent RFA reporting.
Evidence and source controls
The public profile distinguishes independently corroborated facts—his CAD leadership, long-term overseas organizing, and death—from exact internal election chronology preserved in movement-history sources pending primary congress minutes.
Primary-source gaps
Priority archival targets include CAD congress minutes and election records for 1994, 1996, and 1998; early membership records; Kentucky Chinese-student democracy-organization records; and a family notice, obituary, or death record.
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