{{Short description|Chinese student activist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2021}} {{Infobox person | name = Qiu Zhanxuan | image = | caption = | native_name = {{nobold|邱占萱}} | native_name_lang = zh | birth_date = 1998 | birth_place = [[Chongqing]], China | disappeared_date = | nationality = | alma_mater = [[Peking University]] | occupation = Student, activist | organization = [[Peking University Marxist Society]] | movement = | awards = }} '''Qiu Zhanxuan''' ({{lang-zh|s=邱占萱|p=Qiū Zhànxuān}}; born 1998) is a Chinese [[student activist]] and [[Marxism|Marxist]]. Qiu was president of the [[Peking University Marxist Society]], a Marxist study group, until 28 December 2018.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nst.com.my/world/2018/12/444754/china-university-students-protest-marxist-group-shakeup|website=www.nst.com.my|publisher=The New Straits Times| access-date=4 January 2019|title=China university students protest Marxist group shakeup |date=28 December 2018 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/2179921/peking-university-students-clash-campus-guards-over-control-marxist|title=Peking University students protest over control of Marxist Society|date=28 December 2018|website=South China Morning Post|language=en|access-date=4 January 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/2179542/chinese-marxist-student-leader-taken-away-police-125th|title=Police nab Marxist leader on way to Mao Zedong anniversary bash|date=26 December 2018|website=South China Morning Post|language=en|access-date=4 January 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/china-police-detains-marxist-student-leader-for-celebrating-mao-zedong-s-birthday/story-6jOJUVNZl2W9vTOeA3V7ZI.html|title=China police detains Marxist student leader for celebrating Mao Zedong's birthday|date=26 December 2018|website=Hindustan Times|language=en|access-date=4 January 2019}}</ref>
== Youth == Qiu's father and uncles were laid off by the state during China's 1990s reforms. Although his father started a business, his uncles who lost their jobs could not even afford to make $1.50 family Mahjong bets. This had a great impression on Qiu.<ref name=washingtonpost />
Qiu won the gold medal in the [[Chinese Chemistry Olympiad|national Chemistry Olympiad]] and received a rare full scholarship in 2016. Qiu switched his major from chemistry to sociology in his second year and joined the Marxist club and became its president.<ref name=washingtonpost />
== 2018 abduction == On 26 December 2018, Qiu was detained by police while on his way to a celebration of [[Mao Zedong]]'s birthday.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/student-12262018133511.html|title=Chinese Police Detain Marxist Student Leader on Mao's Birthday|website=Radio Free Asia|language=en|access-date=4 January 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201812280023.html|title=China pressures Marxist group after Mao birthday bust：The Asahi Shimbun|website=[[The Asahi Shimbun]]|language=en|access-date=4 January 2019|archive-date=4 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190104124004/http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201812280023.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Leading Chinese Marxist Student Taken Away by Police on Mao's Birthday |url=https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2018/12/26/world/asia/26reuters-china-politics-mao.html |access-date=4 January 2019 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=26 December 2018}}</ref>
== 2019 detention and torture == Authorities detained Qiu again for four days in February 2019. Qiu said the police asked him to quit labour activism and drop out of Peking University. He said the authorities "slapped him until blood streamed from his nose, and they jammed headphones into his ears and played hours of propaganda at full volume. The police also made him bend over a table naked and spread his buttocks, joking darkly that they would teach him how to insert a listening device. This all happened on campus."<ref name=washingtonpost>{{cite news |title='If I disappear': Chinese students make farewell messages amid crackdowns over labor activism |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/if-i-disappear-chinese-students-make-farewell-messages-amid-crackdowns-over-labor-activism-/2019/05/25/6fc949c0-727d-11e9-9331-30bc5836f48e_story.html |access-date=5 February 2023 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=25 May 2019}}</ref>
Qiu disappeared on 29 April 2019. His classmates said State security agents seized him from Beijing's outskirts that day.<ref name=washingtonpost /> In August 2023, ''[[Photon Media]]'' wrote that Qiu has been released and taught Chemistry Olympiad courses on an online course platform.<ref>{{Cite web |title=张鸣：佳士工人运动五周年—-走向分化的年轻毛左，后继无人的佳士路线？ – 光传媒 {{!}} 传播真理 追求自由 |url=https://ipkmedia.com/247893/ |access-date=2025-04-13 |language=zh-Hans}}</ref>
==See also== *[[Chinese Left-wing Youth]]
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