Jiang Xueqin
Jiang Xueqin is a Canadian educator and author working in China who led international-program reforms at schools including Shenzhen Middle School and the Affiliated High School of Peking University; through his YouTubeYouTubeYouTube is Google’s video-sharing and creator platform, founded in 2005 by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim and acquired by Google in 2006. Built around video uploading, viewing, and creator earnings, the platform has developed Shorts, YouTube Music, Premium, YouTube TV, and products for children, and is headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States.Open the full entry channel “Predictive History” he lectures on history and makes predictions about current affairs, drawing wide online attention and controversy in 2026.
Contents9 sections
Key facts
1999Graduating from Yale
He is a Canadian citizen whose parents emigrated from China; by his own account in a 2014 interview, he grew up in a poor family in Toronto.[1]
He graduated from YaleYale UniversityYale University is a research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Its predecessor, the Collegiate School, received a charter in 1701. Trustees chose New Haven in 1716; the institution became Yale College in 1718 and Yale University in 1887. Yale provides undergraduate, graduate and professional education and has 14 undergraduate residential colleges. As of October 2026, its president was Maurie McInnis, who took office in July 2024. In 2026, Yale expanded aid for incoming undergraduates and celebrated its 325th anniversary.Open the full entry in 1999 and then worked as a China stringer for foreign news outlets; before that, in the late 1990s, he had briefly taught as a foreign teacher at the Affiliated High School of Peking University.[2]
June 5, 2002Expelled from China
According to a 2002 report by Reporters Without Borders, while covering a workers’ protest in Daqing as a freelance journalist for the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), he was held by local police for two days on grounds of “making illegal video recordings” and was expelled from the country on June 5, 2002; he had been living and working in Beijing for two years at the time.[3]
2008–2012Leading International Programs at Shenzhen Middle School and the Affiliated High School of Peking University
In 2008, at age 32, he was chosen by Shenzhen Middle School principal Wang Zheng to run the school’s overseas studies program; the reform experiment lasted a little under two years and ended in late 2009.[2]
He then followed Wang to the Affiliated High School of Peking University, where he ran the International Department and continued similar reforms, until his contract was terminated in the winter of 2012.[2]
2014Working at Tsinghua Fuzhong and Publishing “Creative China”
An April 2014 interview in The New York Review of Books described him as active in Chinese education since 1998, then working for Tsinghua Fuzhong, Tsinghua University’s affiliated high school, and as having just published the book “Creative China” in China.[1]
2021Publishing “Schools for the Soul”
The Global Teacher Prize judging academy page describes him as an educator focused on helping Chinese schools teach creativity and lists two books he published in China: “Creative China” (2014) and “Schools for the Soul” (2021).[4]
His Big Think author profile describes him as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a researcher at the Global Education Innovation Initiative at Harvard Graduate School of Education.[5]
2022Teaching at an International School in Beijing
According to a 2022 Sixth Tone report, after leaving his reform roles at top schools he spent time outside education, moved to Chengdu around 2018 to bring “innovative education” ideas to local high schools, and in 2022 took a job at an international school in Beijing.[2]
2026Attention and Controversy Around Predictive History
His YouTube channel “Predictive History” takes as its starting point the idea of “psycho-history” from Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series, saying the channel explores whether such a discipline is possible.[6]
In March 2026, the South China Morning Post described the Beijing high-school teacher as a viral “prophet” credited with forecasting Trump’s election win and the war with Iran.[7]
In the same year, The Free Press published a critical article on his views, calling him a conspiracy theorist.[8]
Related Organizations, Websites, and Public Accounts
YouTube: Official channel: https://www.youtube.com/@PredictiveHistory (opens in a new window)[6][7]
X: Public account: https://x.com/xueqinjiang (opens in a new window)[5]
Sources
- Solving China’s Schools: An Interview with Jiang Xueqin (opens in a new window)
- Bitter Lessons From a Chinese Education Reformer (opens in a new window)
- Canadian journalist expelled for investigating workers' strikes (opens in a new window)
- 431 Jiang Xueqin (opens in a new window)
- Jiang Xueqin - Big Think (opens in a new window)
- Predictive History - YouTube (opens in a new window)
- Jiang Xueqin, the viral ‘prophet’ predicting the world’s fate from a Beijing classroom (opens in a new window)
- Meet the Internet’s New Iran Expert—Who Thinks the Illuminati Run the World (opens in a new window)