Qiu Zhanxuan
Chinese student activist and Marxist
About Qiu Zhanxuan
Qiu Zhanxuan (; born 1998) is a Chinese student activist and Marxist. Qiu was president of the Peking University Marxist Society, a Marxist study group, until 28 December 2018.
Youth Qiu's father and uncles were laid off by the state during China's 1990s reforms. Although his father started a business, his uncles who lost their jobs could not even afford to make $1.50 family Mahjong bets. This had a great impression on Qiu.
2019 detention and torture Authorities detained Qiu again for four days in February 2019. Qiu said the police asked him to quit labour activism and drop out of Peking University. He said the authorities "slapped him until blood streamed from his nose, and they jammed headphones into his ears and played hours of propaganda at full volume. The police also made him bend over a table naked and spread his buttocks, joking darkly that they would teach him how to insert a listening device. This all happened on campus."
Qiu disappeared on 29 April 2019. His classmates said State security agents seized him from Beijing's outskirts that day.
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Chinese student activist and Marxist
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Qiu Zhanxuan was born in Chongqing.
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