Xue Deyun

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A leader of the Guizhou cultural revival movement, which called for increased literary freedom in China, Xue was jailed from 1987-90 and again from 1998-2001 for attempting to overthrow the socialist system through “rumormongering and slander.” He was released in July, 2001 after three and a half years in in prison and became a Buddhist monk in 2005.