Liu Junning

Liu Junning (November 1961—) , a native of Shucheng, Anhui Province, is a political scientist. Liu received his Ph.D. in political science from Peking University in 1993, was a researcher at the Institute of Political Science of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), and a visiting scholar at Harvard's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. In early 2000s, Liu was expelled from Chinese Academy of Social Science for his advocacy for liberalism and constitutional democracy. He later became a researcher at the Institute of Chinese Culture under China's Ministry of Culture. Liu is a liberal scholar, a signatory to Charter 08, and the author of *Republic·Democracy·Constitutionalism: A Study of Liberalism*, *On Conservatism*, and *Democracy: A Chinese Citizen’s Textbook*, among other books.