Xia Yeliang

Xia Yeliang (Chinese: 夏业良; born 4 September 1960) is a former associate professor of economics at Peking University.

In June 2013, he was given notice by a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) official at the School of Economics that a faculty vote regarding termination of his position at the university was scheduled.

[1] PKU issued an announcement afterwards, claiming "In recent years, Xia's teaching evaluations has been consistently the lowest of the whole School of Economics.

[3] Xia, a supporter of democracy and human rights, has been outspoken in the past going so far as to directly criticize Liu Yunshan, at the time the director of the CCP Central Propaganda Department with respect to censorship and asking him, "how he thinks he has the power to control other people's thoughts."

Liu later became a member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, the top leadership of the People's Republic of China, from 2012 to 2017.