Zhao Fusan

Who is Zhao Fusan?

Zhao Fusan is a Christian scholar.

Born in Shanghai in 1926, he received his BA from St. John’s University in 1946. Zhao worked for Young Men's Christian Association in Beijing starting in 1947 and was one of the 40 initiators of Three-Self Declaration in 1950. He then became an Anglican priest of Holy Catholic Church of China, the vice president of Beijing Three-Self Patriotic Movement and the deputy secretary-general of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Political Consultative Conference. He worked at Institute of World Religions, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and eventually became vice president of the Academy and TSPM in 1980. He was elected as a Standing Committee member of the Seventh National People's Congress in 1988. During the late 1980s, Zhao was a vice-president of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, from which he was removed after his response to the Tiananmen Massacre. Since leaving China after the Tiananmen Square Massacre of 1989, Zhao has resided in Europe and the US. He was a visiting scholar at Oklahoma City University from approximately 1990-1999.

Among his publications is The History of Christianity in China, published under the pseudonym of Yang Zhen.