The most wanted man in China
Subtitle: my journey from scientist to enemy of the state
By: Fang Lizhi ; translated by Perry Link
Contributors: Link, E. Perry (Eugene Perry), 1944- translator
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
ISBN-13: 9781627794992
Subjects: Politics and government; Dissenters; Scholars; Biography
Work titles: Fang Lizhi zi zhuan
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: My ancestors; title: My home in Beijing; title: Elementary school in occupied Beijing; title: My prime movers; title: On campus at Peking University; title: My first trip to the bottom; title: Life in the fields; title: Into the University of Science and Technology; title: Days under the dynasty; title: Re-education at Bagong Mountain; title: Arrival in Hefei; title: Turn toward astrophysics; title: Modernization at the end of the 1970s; title: Stepping out of China; title: In the tides of reform; title: Vice President of the University of Science and Technology of China; title: Bourgeois liberalism; title: Dissident; title: Spring 1989; title: Thirteen months; title: Afterword by Perry Link.