Fang Lizhi, an astrophysicist and former vice-president of the University of Science and Technology of China, was expelled from the Communist Party of China in 1987. He was granted asylum at the US embassy in Beijing before leaving the country in 1990. He is the 1989 recipient of the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award and is a professor of physics at the University of Arizona. (November 2011)
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The Real Deng
November 10, 2011
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
by Ezra F. Vogel
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My ‘Confession’
June 23, 2011
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The Past and the Future
June 23, 2011
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An Appeal to the ‘Fortune’ Conference in Shanghai
September 23, 1999
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The Hope for China
October 17, 1996
Science and Dissent in Post-Mao China: The Politics of Knowledge by H. Lyman Miller
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The Chinese Amnesia
September 27, 1990
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Keeping the Faith
December 21, 1989
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Letters from the Other China
July 20, 1989
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China’s Despair and China’s Hope
February 2, 1989