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Fang Lizhi

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)

The Hope for China

Science and Dissent in Post-Mao China: The Politics of Knowledge

by H. Lyman Miller

October 17, 1996 issue

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