Chai Ling organized many of the hunger strikes and demonstrations that took place in Tiananmen Square during the protests of 1989. After the shoot out on June 4th 1989, she fled the country for Paris, and from there was accepted with a full scholarship to Princeton University in the USA. She earned an honorary Masters degree in Political Science from there. She acquired an MBA at Harvard Business School in 1998. Since the making of the documentary “Moving the Mountain”, she now co-runs a software company entitled Jenzabar, with her husband, and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. She also started a nonprofit organization entitled “All Girls Allowed” which is aimed at exposing and stopping the human rights violations caused by the One Child policy in China. She has now been nominated for the Nobel Peace Price twice.
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