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Fang Lizhi

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Fang Lizhi

(born Feb. 12, 1936, Beijing, China) Chinese astrophysicist and dissident held partially responsible for the 1989 student rebellion in Tiananmen Square. In 1957 he was expelled from the Chinese Communist Party for a paper decrying the Marxist position on physics. He later taught at Beijing's University of Science and Technology (Keda); in 1966 he was sent to a communal farm to be reeducated. After the death of Mao Zedong in 1976, Fang's party membership was restored. Appointed a vice president of one branch of Keda in 1985, he began work on restructuring it and reforming educational policy. During the demonstrations in Tiananmen Square he took refuge in the U.S. embassy, and in 1990 he and his wife were allowed to leave China. He subsequently conducted research in Britain and the U.S.

Fang Lizhi
born 1936, Chinese astrophysicist and human-rights campaigner, living in the US from 1990


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It is no surprise, therefore, that from Linus Pauling to Andrei Sakharov, from Albert Einstein to Fang Lizhi, and from Bertrand Russell to Vaclav Havel, the most notable champions of human rights over the past half-century have included scientists and scholars.
'The gleaming wings of science.' by Polanyi, John Charles / UN Chronicle
As Chinese dissident Fang Lizhi said in 1989 while arguing for the withdrawal of World Bank loans and credits from China, "We must make our government realize that it is economically dependent on its citizens.
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