作者：關永傑 March 23, 2026
編輯：鍾然 校对：程筱筱 翻译：彭小梅
錢辰昌，他出生於1969年，江蘇揚州人，中國民心黨創辦人，《鳳凰訓》作者。他與我是2023年初在Twitter上認識。那時，他已經從中國一路輾轉到了老撾，處在一種近乎流亡的狀態。他帶著一本尚未出版的《鳳凰訓》手稿，也帶著一個宏大的理想——推動中國走向民主憲政。
（錢辰昌，2024年2月14日，紐約曼哈頓六四紀念館）
我們並不是完全認同彼此觀點的朋友，但一直保持聯繫。在他決定前往美國之前，曾把整整六百多頁的手稿拍照發給我保存，作為備份。2023年7月他到達紐約，在那裡他參與活動，發展黨員，出版書籍，但一切進展未如他所願。2024年12月，他仍處在等待庇護身份開庭的狀態下，毅然離開美國，前往東南亞繼續發展他的事業。
在2026年2月，他再次讓我震驚，他突然打電話通知我：他決定回中國。
我當時強烈反對。我告訴他，這樣做非常危險。但他說了一句話讓我至今難忘——他說，推翻中共的主戰場一定是在中國大陸。
他選擇開車從雲南邊境進入中國。他還對我說，如果48小時之後仍然沒有聯繫，希望我能為他發聲。那是我和他的最後一次對話。
從那之後，他已經失聯40天。
在錢先生失聯48小時後，我曾為是否應該在網絡上為他發聲而糾結了幾天，我害怕將他的信息公開，會對他不利。在某一次活動中我就這件事請教了灣區的一位民運前輩，前輩跟我說：既然錢辰昌在過關前給你發了那條信息，他也意料到自己會面臨這樣的風險，假若他現在已經在中共的監獄中了，你還不為他呼號，他很有可能就會這樣無聲無息地消失了，還有比這更壞的結果嗎？
是的，一個人，可以被質疑，可以被責罵，可以被審判，但不應該被無聲地消失。
錢辰昌只是一個普通人。他不是公眾人物，不是知名領袖，甚至他的很多想法及行為，也並沒有得到廣泛認同。但這恰恰就反映出，如果連一個普通人都可以這樣消失，那我們每一個人，都可能成為下一個。
這些年，我們見過一些有名字的人，他們的事跡傳遍全球：
站在北京四通橋上的彭立發，將墨水潑向獨裁者頭像的董瑤瓊，教學樓前舉起白紙的李康夢……他們因為那一刻的壯舉而被世界記住。但即使事件如此轟動，他們的處境至今仍缺乏公開透明的信息。
與此同時，還有更多人，他們沒有名字，沒有被持續的關注，甚至連零碎的記錄也沒有留下。
你們還能記起北京鳥巢玲瓏塔女士嗎？你們對深圳東門舉牌哥還有印象嗎？白紙運動時各高校中站在前列的學生現在都還能正常上學嗎？
他們可能只是短暫地出現在網絡上，然後迅速被刪除、被遺忘，像一顆石子投入大海，連一圈漣漪都來不及留下，我們甚至不知道他們是誰，也不知道他們後來發生了什麼。
在最近灣區的一次分享會上，有人提到一個問題：為什麼華人在海外可以成為奧運冠軍、諾貝爾獎得主、大牌教授、成功的企業家，卻在政治上始終沒有相應的影響力？
有人給出的答案是：因為大多數華人只關心自己。這個解釋聽起來有點道理，但並不完整。
因為我們忽略了一點，那些願意站出來的人，他們面對的是一個控制力異常強大、資源高度集中、並具備全球影響力的對手。在這種高度不對稱的環境下，仍然有人選擇發聲、記錄、行動……這本身就已經是一種莫大的勇氣。
當他們已經做出選擇，並為此付出沈重代價的時候，我們至少不應該讓他們消失得悄無聲息。
所以，我想表達的其實很簡單：我們呼籲關注錢辰昌。
當中國民主人權聯盟得知這個信息後，馬上響應併發起行動。2026年3月22日下午，在舊金山灣區的San Jose City Hall舉辦了一場“聲援錢辰昌”的活動。
中國民主人權聯盟灣區負責人李海峰在活動開場介紹時說，錢辰昌雖然不為人熟知，但普通人同樣值得被聲援。他為理想行動、冒險回國，如今失聯，我們有責任為他發聲。
同是中國民主人權聯盟成員的張勇則表示，民運群體中，“知名人士”畢竟是少數，而大多數都是像錢辰昌這樣名不見經傳的人，而真正支撐起整個群體的就是這大量默默無聞的人，他的純粹和選擇值得重視，也提醒我們：這些人，才是這個群體的基礎。
來自“南粵獨立”團體的鄭永華也前來聲援，他說：從未認識錢辰昌，甚至與錢先生的政治立場也不完全相同，但並不影響他前來聲援，我們應該為任何一個被專制獨裁壓制的人發聲。
中國民主黨黨員、活動召集人之一的周志剛更多的是擔心錢辰昌先生現在的安危，希望有更多人的關注，會讓有關部門有所忌憚。
其他前來參與活動並且發言聲援的人士還有：何冬玲、莊帆、惠汝濤、楊坤、葉良泉。未能前來參與的馬湘平，提前為活動寫好了橫幅。
同一時間，位於洛杉磯的中國民主人權聯盟南加州分部，也由史慶梅、何興強、彭小亮帶領，在中共國駐洛杉磯領事館門前舉行了一場同一訴求的活動，中國民主黨創辦人之一的朱虞夫先生到場支持。
（照片由中國民主人權聯盟南加州分部提供）
我們絕不應該遺忘那些被看見的人，但更要記住那些來不及被廣泛關注的人。
如果有一天我們身邊有一個平凡的人消失了，而沒有人發聲，那麼沈默就會成為一種默許。而當這樣的事情一再發生，被消失的，就不會再只是“某一個人”。
Searching for Qian Chenchang: Even the Most Ordinary Person Should Not Be Silently Disappeared
Author: Guan YongjieEditor: Zhong Ran Proofreader: Cheng Xiaoxiao
Translator: Peng Xiaomei
Abstract:After Qian Chenchang returned to China, he went missing, drawing attention.Support activities were held in the Bay Area and Los Angeles, emphasizing that ordinary people should not be disappeared, and calling on society to continue speaking out to prevent more people from disappearing silently.
Qian Chenchang, he was born in 1969, a native of Yangzhou, Jiangsu, the founder of the Chinese Minxin Party, and the author of Phoenix Teachings.He and I met on Twitter at the beginning of 2023. At that time, he had already traveled from China to Laos and was in a state almost like exile.He carried with him an unpublished manuscript of Phoenix Teachings and carried a grand ideal — to promote China toward democratic constitutionalism.
（Qian Chenchang, photographed on February 14, 2024, at the June Fourth Memorial Museum in Manhattan, New York）
We were not friends who completely agreed with each other’s views, but we kept in contact. Before he decided to go to the United States, he took photos of more than 600 pages of his manuscript and sent them to me for safekeeping as a backup. In July 2023, he arrived in New York, where he participated in activities, recruited party members, and published books, but everything did not go as he had wished. In December 2024, while still waiting for his asylum hearing, he resolutely left the United States and went to Southeast Asia to continue developing his cause.
In February 2026, he shocked me again. He suddenly called me to inform me: he had decided to return to China.
I strongly opposed it at the time. I told him that doing so was extremely dangerous. But he said something that I still cannot forget — he said that the main battlefield for overthrowing the CCP must be in mainland China.
He chose to drive into China through the Yunnan border.He also told me that if there was still no contact after 48 hours, he hoped I would speak out for him. That was my last conversation with him.Since then, he has been missing for 40 days.
After Mr. Qian had been missing for 48 hours, I struggled for several days over whether I should speak out for him online.I was afraid that making his information public would be detrimental to him.At one event, I consulted a senior figure in the pro-democracy movement in the Bay Area about this matter. The senior told me: since Qian Chenchang sent you that message before crossing the border, he had already anticipated the risks he might face. If he is already in a CCP prison now, and you still do not speak out for him, he may disappear silently like this. Is there any worse outcome than that?
Yes, a person can be questioned, can be criticized, can be judged, but should not be disappeared silently.
Qian Chenchang is just an ordinary person.He is not a public figure, not a well-known leader, and even many of his ideas and actions have not gained widespread recognition. But this precisely shows that if even an ordinary person can disappear like this, then every one of us may become the next.
Over the years, we have seen some people with names, whose stories have spread around the world:Peng Lifa, who stood on Beijing’s Sitong Bridge; Dong Yaoqiong, who splashed ink on the dictator’s portrait; Li Kangmeng, who held up a blank paper in front of a teaching building… They are remembered by the world because of that moment of courage. But even though those events were so sensational, their situations still lack open and transparent information to this day.
At the same time, there are many more people. They have no names, no sustained attention, and not even fragmented records left behind.
Do you still remember the woman at the Linglong Tower near Beijing’s Bird’s Nest? Do you still have an impression of the man holding a sign at Shenzhen Dongmen? Are the students who stood at the forefront of the “white paper movement” in universities still able to attend school normally now? They may have only briefly appeared online, and then were quickly deleted and forgotten, like a stone thrown into the sea, not even leaving a ripple in time. We do not even know who they are, nor do we know what happened to them afterward.
At a recent sharing session in the Bay Area, someone raised a question:Why is it that Chinese people overseas can become Olympic champions, Nobel Prize winners, top professors, and successful entrepreneurs, but still do not have corresponding influence in politics?
One answer given was: because most Chinese people only care about themselves.This explanation sounds somewhat reasonable, but it is not complete.
Because we have overlooked one point: those who are willing to stand up are facing an opponent with extraordinarily strong control, highly concentrated resources, and global influence. In such a highly asymmetric environment, there are still people who choose to speak out, to record, to act… This itself is already a tremendous courage.
When they have already made their choice and paid a heavy price for it,the least we should do is not let them disappear silently.
So what I want to express is actually very simple: we call for attention to Qian Chenchang.
After the China Democracy and Human Rights Alliance learned of this information, it immediately responded and launched actions.On the afternoon of March 22, 2026, an event titled “Support Qian Chenchang” was held at San Jose City Hall in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Li Haifeng, the Bay Area coordinator of the alliance, said in the opening remarks that although Qian Chenchang is not widely known, ordinary people also deserve support. He acted for his ideals and took the risk of returning to China, and now he has gone missing — we have a responsibility to speak out for him.
Zhang Yong, also a member of the alliance, said that in the pro-democracy community, “well-known figures” are only a minority, while most people are ordinary individuals like Qian Chenchang who are unknown.What truly supports the entire group is precisely this large number of unknown people. His sincerity and choice deserve attention, and it also reminds us that these people are the foundation of this group.
Zheng Yonghua from the “Southern Guangdong Independence” group also came to show support. He said: I have never known Qian Chenchang, and my political stance is not completely the same as his, but that does not affect my coming here to support him. We should speak out for anyone who is oppressed by authoritarian dictatorship.
Zhou Zhigang, a member of the China Democracy Party and one of the organizers of the event, expressed more concern about Mr. Qian’s current safety, hoping that greater attention would make relevant authorities more cautious.
Others who participated in the event and spoke in support included: He Dongling, Zhuang Fan, Hui Rutao, Yang Kun, and Ye Liangquan.Ma Xiangping, who could not attend, prepared a banner for the event in advance
(Photos provided by the Southern California branch of the China Democracy and Human Rights Alliance)
We should never forget those who have been seen,but we must also remember those who did not have time to be widely noticed.
If one day, an ordinary person around us disappears, and no one speaks out,then silence will become a form of acquiescence. And when such things happen again, those who have disappeared will no longer be just “one person.”
