Zhao Fusan

Zhao Fusan (赵复三) (1926–2015) was a Chinese scholar of Christianity. From the 1950s to the 1980s, he was involved in the Three-Self Patriotic Movement (TSPM), but lived in exile after 1989.

Life

Born in Shanghai in 1926, he received his BA from St. John's University in 1946.

Zhao worked for YMCA in Beijing starting in 1947 and was one of the 40 initiators of Three-Self Declaration in 1950. He then became an Anglican priest of Holy Catholic Church of China, the vice president of Beijing Three-Self Patriotic Movement and the deputy secretary-general of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Political Consultative Conference. He worked at Institute of World Religions, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and eventually became vice president of the academy and TSPM in 1980. He was elected as a Standing Committee member of the Seventh National People's Congress in 1988. He married Chen Xiaoqiang during the exile and died in Connecticut, U.S. on 15 July 2015. and The History of Christianity in China (1979, published in Chinese), published under the pseudonym of Yang Zhen.

Family Ex-wife: Qu Xixian