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The most wanted man in China : my journey from scientist to enemy of the state / Fang Lizhi ; translated by Perry Link.

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951.057092 F211m

Dissenters -- China -- Biography.

Scholars -- China -- Biography.

China -- Politics and government -- 1976-2002.

9781627794992 (hc)

1627794999 (hc)

Fang Lizhi zi zhuan. English

Alternate title:

Translation of: Fang Lizhi zi zhuan

xviii, 331 pages ; 25 cm.

Includes index.

Translation of: Fang Lizhi zi zhuan

Translated from the Chinese.

My ancestors -- My home in Beijing -- Elementary school in occupied Beijing -- My prime movers -- On campus at Peking University -- My first trip to the bottom -- Life in the fields -- Into the University of Science and Technology -- Days under the dynasty -- Re-education at Bagong Mountain -- Arrival in Hefei -- Turn toward astrophysics -- Modernization at the end of the 1970s -- Stepping out of China -- In the tides of reform -- Vice President of the University of Science and Technology of China -- Bourgeois liberalism -- Dissident -- Spring 1989 -- Thirteen months -- Afterword by Perry Link.

"A long-awaited memoir by the celebrated physicist whose clashes with the Chinese regime helped inspired the Tiananmen Square protests describes how in spite of his scientific contributions he was sentenced to hard labor for decades and eventually sought asylum from the U.S.,"--NoveList.

Autobiographies.

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