Social Activism
In early 1997 whilst at Beijing University, he co-founded the Current Affairs Society, a student organization committed on discussion of social issues in China, which was banned several months later by school authorities.
In 1999, Yang and some close friends started to meet regularly and formed the New Youth Society to discuss social and political issues. Yang also started to publish his writings on his website, Yang Zi's Garden of Ideas, hosted at lib.126.com and/or lib.com (accounts differ). He wrote articles for his website that advocated political freedoms, criticised the crackdown on the Falun Gong spiritual movement, and deplored the economic hardship of China’s peasants.
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