Shen Yuan (the pen name of Chen Yulin), was born in Shanghai in 1936. He was admitted to 他the Beijing International Studies College, and joined the CCP in 1956. He was labeled a Rightist in 1958, expelled from the Party, and exiled to the frontier for reeducation through labor. After his rehabilitation in 1978, he was reinstated as a Party member and in the subsequent years worked for the Party. Dissatisfied with the CCP's suppression of the June Fouth student movement in 1989, he left mainland China and moved to Hong Kong. In 2007, he co-founded the Hong Kong Five-Seven Society and had since devoted himself to the collection of historical data for many years, and is mainly engaged in the study of the Anti-Rightist campaign. He passed away on December 28, 2019 in Shanghai at the age of 84.
