[1][2] Jin was an influential figure in the New Enlightenment movement in the 1980s in mainland China, creating the Towards the Future Book Series with Bao Zunxin and others in 1984.
[3][4][5] In 1990, he founded the academic journal Twenty-First Century with his wife Liu Qingfeng at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
[3][4] Jin Guantao was born in Yiwu, Zhejiang in 1947, and graduated from Peking University in 1970 with a degree in chemistry.
[2] Jin was an active figure during the New Enlightenment movement in mainland China in the 1980s, creating the popular Towards the Future Book Series with Bao Zunxin and others in 1984.
[4] After the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989, Jin moved to the Chinese University of Hong Kong where he founded the academic journal Twenty-First Century and built "the Database for the Study of Modern Chinese Thought (1830-1930)" with his wife Liu Qingfeng.