xu jiatun (; 10 march 1916 – 29 june 2016) was a chinese communist politician and dissident. he was the chinese communist party secretary of jiangsu province from 1977 to 1983 and the governor of jiangsu from 1977 to 1979. after supporting the 1989 tiananmen square student protests, he left the country and lived in self-exile in the united states.