Volume 36, Number 1 · February 2, 1989
China's Despair and China's Hope
By Fang Lizhi, Translated by Perry Link
Fang Lizhi, an internationally respected astrophysicist, is China's most prominent dissident. Formerly the vice-president of the University of Science and Technology in Anhui province, he was dismissed from his job and expelled from the Communist party in 1987, after being accused of encouraging student demonstrations in favor of democratic rights. Recently he was barred by the authorities from leaving China to visit the United States. Andrei Sakharov, along with other scientists in Europe and the United States, has appealed to Chinese government leaders to permit him to travel abroad.
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