The most wanted man in China : my journey from scientist to enemy of the state / Fang Lizhi ; translated by Perry Link.
- Fang, Lizhi
- Date:
- [2016]
- Books
About this work
Also known as
Fang Lizhi zi zhuan. English
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.
Publication/Creation
New York : Henry Holt and Company, [2016]
Physical description
xviii, 331 pages ; 25 cm
Contributors
Notes
Includes index.
Contents
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.
Language note
Translated from the Chinese.
Type/Technique
Languages
Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineBZP (Fang)Open shelves
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Identifiers
ISBN
- 9781627794992
- 1627794999