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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 How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| The laborious negotiations over the texts of the 1972 Shanghai Communique and 1982 Joi nt Communique on arms sales to Taiwan are exposed in considerable detail, as is the background to the 1996 Taiwan missile crisis and the awkward Fang Lizhi incident of 1989. 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. Among the writers were University of Arizona physicist Fang Lizhi, who was a university vice president at the time of the student demonstrations in 1989; former People's Daily writer Liu Binyan; and Harry Wu, who spent 19 years in Chinese labor camps and has secretly returned on several occasions to document atrocities inside the camps. |
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