Zhang Zuhua (1955-), a native of Danyang, Jiangsu Province, is a constitutional scholar. Zhang graduated from the Political Science Department of Nanchong Normal College in 1982 with a bachelor's degree in philosophy, and has served as a Standing Committee member of the Communist Youth League Central Committee, and secretary of the Communist Youth League Committee of the Central State Organs. After the June 4th incident in 1989, he left government and in 1991-1992 studied the constitutional law of Western countries at the Graduate School of the China University of Political Science and Law. Since 1993, he worked as a researcher at independent civil society organizations including Sanhe Institute of Economics and Technology, and Jiuding Institute of Public Affairs. He also served as a visiting professor at the Department of Political Science and Law at Sichuan Normal University. Zhang was one of the drafters of Charter 08 and one of the editors-in-chief of Minzhu Zhongguo (Democratic China) magazine. He is mainly engaged in research on political modernization, the theory and practice of constitutional democracy, and political reform in China, and has published several books including *How to Build a Constitutional Democracy in China* and *The Rise of Civil Society in China*.
