Guo Luoji / 郭罗基
Also used: Ma Wen / 马温
Classification: Dissident intellectual and legal-rights advocate
Geographic context: Mainland China; United States
Period: 1970s–1990s and later advocacy
Profile
Guo Luoji is a Chinese dissident intellectual associated with constitutional, legal-rights, and academic-freedom advocacy. Archival and media evidence connects him to political and legal challenges in Nanjing and to later human-rights work overseas.
The China Spring archive directly confirms placement of 《郭罗基的上诉状》 in issue 108 at page 44, providing a concrete source anchor for his legal challenge. Human Rights Watch reporting documents the broader enforced-exile context and his later role with Human Rights in China, while Voice of America Chinese reporting records subsequent obstruction of his passport renewal.
Evidence and source controls
The evidence supports Guo’s rights and constitutional-law advocacy and later restrictions imposed on him. The exact defendant, cause of action, court, and disposition of particular litigation remain dependent on the underlying complaint, docket, and rulings and are not inferred here.
Post-1989 teaching and travel restrictions and later passport obstruction are independently documented. No imprisonment chronology is asserted.
Primary-source gaps
Priority records include the full issue 108 appeal text or original scan; the underlying complaint or petition and court docket; university restriction records; consular passport correspondence; and primary documentation of organizational tenure.
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