Lian Shengde Media Archive
This research index brings together verified and qualified media records concerning Lian Shengde from the P1/Lian media corpus. Original-language titles and publisher links are preserved. Where a source survives only through a mirror or later archival reference, that limitation is noted in the underlying research register.
Verified and qualified source index
- 1989 — Hong Kong Wenhui Daily: contemporaneous report on an elected Tiananmen Square leadership body; certified translation preserved in P1, original clipping still sought.
- Associated Press, June 28, 1997 — Hong Kong handover protest in Washington
- The New York Times, July 1997 — Hong Kong handover protest
- The Straits Times, July 2, 1997 — Hong Kong handover / Washington protest
- Central News Agency, June 5, 1998 — Washington commemorates June Fourth with declaration
- Kyodo / Japan Economic Newswire, June 1998 — exiled Chinese dissidents form new coalition
- Associated Press, June 24, 1998 — profile during President Clinton’s China trip
- Associated Press, July 2, 1998 — dissidents assess Clinton’s China trip
- Associated Press, July 3, 1998 — updated wire cycle
- Agence France-Presse, July 1998 — China Democracy Party arrests and overseas reaction
- Central News Agency, July 1998 — calls for release of mainland dissidents
- taz, 1998 — opposition movement and the “fifth modernization”
- El País, Nov. 17, 1998 — internet censorship and VIP Reference
- El País / Reuters, Jan. 3, 1999 — Tiananmen anniversary and China Labor Party plans
- Voice of America, June 3, 1999 — Tiananmen / Washington
- Radio Free Asia, June 3, 2000 — embassy hunger strike commemorating June Fourth
- Radio Free Asia, Aug. 17, 2000 — parents denied passports
- Radio Free Asia, Oct. 1, 2000 — internet information controls
- Radio Free Asia, Nov. 29, 2000 — documentary “Freedom Fighter: The Story of Lian Shengde”
- Radio Free Asia, Dec. 1, 2000 — international China human-rights forum
- Wired, July 2001 — Beijing Olympics bid and dissident criticism
- Radio Free Asia, Sept. 18, 2001 — internet freedom / VIP Reference
- The New Republic, 2001–02 — “Asia Minor”
- Voice of America Chinese, Dec. 27, 2002 — family passport denial
- Radio Free Asia, Dec. 27, 2002 — family separation
- Voice of America Chinese, Dec. 28, 2002 — relatives denied travel
- Voice of America Chinese, Jan. 22, 2003 — Wang Bingzhang trial
- Radio Free Asia, Feb. 10, 2003 — Wang Bingzhang life sentence
- Voice of America Chinese, Mar. 6, 2003 — Zhang Qi and Wang Bingzhang case
- Radio Free Asia, Mar. 6, 2003 — Zhang Qi detention account and congressional advocacy
- Los Angeles Times, May 6, 2003 — Chinese dissident charged in attack
- Voice of America Chinese, May 6, 2003 — Zhang Hongbao arrest
- Los Angeles Times, May 19, 2003 — “Stakes High for Accused Dissident”
- Voice of America Chinese, Mar. 28, 2004 — memorial for labor activist Zhao Pinlu
- July 2004 — “The Case For Revolution In China” speech transcript
- China Digital Times, Aug. 2004 — censored-name list
- World Weekly / Chinese PEN mirror, 2006 — recollection of the Tiananmen paint-throwing case
- Nancy E. Head, 2019 — reporter retrospective
- Yvonne M. Morgan, 2025 — retrospective on a lost local-newspaper interview
- 1998–99 China Democracy Party press corpus — several partly verified Chinese-language reports preserved in Zheng Cunzhu’s compilation
- The Epoch Times / Minghui-preserved report, July 2004 — rally against overseas political violence
Second-pass additions
- 1999 international NGO human-rights conference record — identifies Shengde Lian as Executive Director of the Free China Movement alongside Timothy Cooper, Joel Segal and Paul Maas Risenhoover.
- ABC News Australia, July 31, 2004 — Chinese dissident heads to Australia — reports that the U.S.-based Free China Movement said legal scholar Yuan Hongbing had left China for Australia and identifies Lian Shengde as the movement’s executive director.
- Washington public rally report, January 2005 — identifies Lian Shengde as executive chair of the Free China Movement at that event; useful time-specific role evidence, not proof of uninterrupted officeholding.
- Radio Free Asia documentary feature, Nov. 29, 2000 — describes him as head of the Washington-area Free China Movement and subject of Freedom Fighter: The Story of Lian Shengde.
Research caution: publication in this index means the record has evidentiary value; it does not mean every statement inside the linked article is independently verified. Items graded as partial or mirror-only remain subject to further bibliographic recovery.
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