Hao Wu (director)

Wu Hao (b 1972, Chinese name: 吴昊) is a documentary maker and blogger known as Tian Yi.

Education

• Bachelor of Science in biology from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1992.
• M.S. in molecular and cell biology from Brandeis University in 1995.
• MBA from the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, in 2000.

Film work

His first film, "Beijing or Bust", documents the trials and tribulations of six American born Chinese who chose to return to Beijing and the cultural adaptation they faced. The film was shown in the 6th Annual San Diego Asian Film Festival in 2005.

Detention

Wu was detained by the Chinese government on February 22, 2006 for almost five months. According to the Global Voices initiative at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Hao had been producing a documentary on underground Christian movements in China when he was detained by authorities in the People's Republic of China.

Following his detention, Global Voices co-founder Ethan Zuckerman started a new blog to monitor the status of Hao's detention, which was covered widely by blogs and news outlets around the world. Hao was released on July 11, 2006.

External links

• Global Voices
• Beijing or Bust - Hao's blog
• Tian Yi profile at Global Voices
• Free Hao Wu blog
• Hao's sister Nina's blog
• 3/21/06, What happened to Hao the Blogger? on Free Media - Press Freedom
• 3/31/06, Benedict's Chinese Flock, (pg. A.16) in The Wall Street Journal
• 4/14/06, online petition for immediate release of Hao Wu
• 4/20/06, Shattering the China Dream on The Washington Post
• 4/26/06, After two months without news, authorities accused of "kidnapping" blogger on Reporters Without Borders
• 7/3/06, Geoffrey Fowler, Gray Zone: An Arrest in China Spotlights Limits to Artistic Freedom in China, (pg. A.1) in The Wall Street Journal
• 7/11/06, Reporters Without Borders - statement on Hao Wu's release