Xiao Qiang

Xiao Qiang is director of the China Internet Project and an adjunct professor for the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of China Digital Times, an independent China news portal. Xiao teaches classes on Participatory Media/Collective Action and Covering China in both the Graduate School of Journalism and the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley. He also researches and writes about the impact of information and communication technologies on China’s media, politics, and international relations. Xiao studied theoretical physics at the University of Science and Technology of China and from there entered the University of Notre Dame astrophysics PhD program from 1986 to 1989. He was the former Executive Director of Human Rights in China from 1991 to 2002 and vice-chairman of the steering committee of the World Movement for Democracy. Xiao was a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship in 2001, and is profiled in the book Soul Purpose: 40 People Who Are Changing the World for the Better, (Melcher Media, 2003). He was also a visiting fellow of the Santa Fe Institute in 2002.