by Fang Lizhi
“Third World Symposium on Physics” (Islamabad, 1981)
three evils
Three-Good Students
Three Gorges
Three Kingdoms
Three People’s Principles Youth League
“Three Studies” conference (1980)
Tiananmen Square
April Fifth Incident
Communist victory and
Gang of Four collapse and
June Fourth massacre of 1989
observational cosmology meeting and
protests of 1989
Tianjin Military Academy
Tibet
Tiger Gate Fortress
Tomb of Aunt Cao
Tongji University
“To the Sea” (Pushkin)
Traviata, La (opera)
trust rankings
Tseng Hui-yen
Tsinghua University
Uighurs
United Nations
United States
Chinese students in
exile in
trips to
U.S. Congress
U.S. embassy, Beijing
U.S. Liaison Office (Beijing)
U.S. National Academy of Sciences
U.S. Space Telescope Science Institute
Universal Truth Will Win (childhood newspaper)
universities
leave Beijing
president’s role in
promotion system
students as children
University Libre Bruxelles
University of Arizona
University of Bonn
University of Hong Kong
University of Rome
International Center for Relativistic Astrophysics (ICRA)
University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)
astronomy and astrophysics at
brick factory and
coal mining and
Cultural Revolution and
Fang as physics professor at
Fang as teaching assistant in
Fang as vice president of
Fang as vice president of, revoked
Fang promoted to full professor at
Fang removal of 1965
founded
four principles and
Guan removed as president
ICRA telescope and
memory of Fang in
moved to Hefei
politics and
railroad and
reforms of 1980s and
student achievements at
student protests at
telescopes and
University of Texas, Austin
Unrequited Love (film)
“Upper Limit to the Intrinsic Velocity of Quasars, An” (Fang)
Vatican
Observatory
Venice
Vietnam
Voice of America
Wabao Lake farmers
Wang Heshou
Wang Yunran (pseudonym)
Wang Zhen
Wangzhuang (Mao villa)
Wan Li
water technology
Weber, Joseph
Wei Jingsheng
well digging
Wenhuibao (newspaper)
West Lake
“What Is This For?” (editorial)
whistlers
“Why Join the Communist Party?” speech (Fang)
Works of Albert Einstein, The (Xu Liangying translation)
World War II
Wu, Emperor
Wu Zhongchao
Xia, Renee
Xiannongtan Stadium victory celebration
Xiao Qiang
Xiaoyedan
Xiesan mine
Xie Xide
Xileng Seal society
Xingjiaosi Temple
Xinglong Observation Station
Xing Zong, Emperor
Xinhua News Agency
Xuanzang
Xu Da
Xu Jialuan
Xu Liangying
Xu Zhimo
Yan’an
Yan and Huang emperors
Yan Garden
Yang Yiquan
Yan Jici
Yan Zhenqing
Yellow Emperor
Yenching University
Yi County
Yiling Pass
Yingkou electronics factory
Youth Guide to the Manufacture of Electronic Devices
Youth League
conference, Peking University (1955)
Yuan dynasty
Yuanping-Beijing rail line
Yuan Shikai, Emperor
Yuhuang Mountain
Yukawa Hideki
Yü Ying-shih
Zanhuang County
Zhang Baifa
Zhang Fei
Zhang Hanzhi
Zhang Jinfu
Zhang Wuchang
Zhdanov, Andrei
Zhejiang Province
Zhejiang University
Zheng Yi
Zhongnanhai compound
Zhongshan Park
Zhongshan University
Zhou Enlai
Zhoukoudian
Zhuangzi
Zhu Bajie
Zhu Cisheng
Zhuge Liang
Zhu Yuanzhang, Emperor
Zhu Zhaoxiang
Zwicky, Fritz
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FANG LIZHI was an astrophysicist and a vice president of the University of Science and Technology of China. A recipient of the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award, he was a professor of physics at the University of Arizona until his death in 2012. You can sign up for email updates here.
ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR
PERRY LINK, professor emeritus of East Asian Studies at Princeton University, teaches at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author or editor of several books on Chinese literature, culture, and politics, including The Tiananmen Papers.
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CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Foreword by Perry Link
Introduction
1 My Ancestors
2 My Home in Beijing
3 Elementary School in Occupied Beijing
4 My Prime Movers
5 On Campus at Peking University
6 My First Trip to the Bottom
7 Life in the Fields
8 Into the University of Science and Technology
9 Days Under the Dynasty
10 Reeducation at Bagong Mountain
11 Arrival in Hefei
12 Turn Toward Astrophysics
13 Modernization at the End of the 1970s
14 Stepping Out of China
15 In the Tides of Reform
16 Vice President of the University of Science and Technology of China
17 Bourgeois Liberalism
18 Dissident
19 Spring 1989
20 Thirteen Months
Afterword by Perry Link
Notes
Index
About the Author and the Translator
Copyright
THE MOST WANTED MAN IN CHINA. Copyright © 2016 by Shuxian Li. English translation copyright © 2016 by Perry Link. All rights reserved. For information, address Henry Holt and Co., 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
Originally published in Chinese in 2013 in traditional Chinese characters by Commonwealth Publishing Co. (Taiwan)
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Frontispiece: Courtesy of Shuxian Li and Ke Fang
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Fang, Lizhi.
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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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Includes index.
ISBN 978-1-62779-499-2 (hardcover)—ISBN 978-1-62779-500-5 (electronic book) 1. Fang, Lizhi. 2. Dissenters—China—Biography. 3. Scholars—China—Biography. 4. China—Politics and government—1976–2002. I. Link, E. Perry (Eugene Perry), 1944–translator II. Title.
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