Name: Wen Tiejun
Title: Professor
Position: Executive Dean & Director
Organization: Renmin University of China(Beijing), Southwest University of China(Chongqing), Fujian Agriculture & Forestry University(Fuzhou)…
Brief profile:
- 11 year pre-u experience of working, in local communities, as a peasant, truck driver, servant, etc.
- 21 year experience of being policy researcher in central governments after doctoral graduation
- 11 year teaching at universities
- Dean and Director of the schools
- Old volunteer and facilitator of rural reconstruction movement in China.
His View on Grassroot Democracy:
“Grassroot democracy must be based on de-colonized knowledge, with historical culture of the indigenous and practical experience of the local. This should be created by mass participatory movements for self empowerment…”.
He shares his work through a feartured-author page.