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The most wanted man in China : my journey from scientist to enemy of the state
- Title
- The most wanted man in China : my journey from scientist to enemy of the state / Fang Lizhi ; translated by Perry Link.
- Author
- Fang, Lizhi
- Publication
- New York : Henry Holt and Company, [2016].
- ©2016
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Link, Perry, 1944-
- Description
- xviii, 331 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- "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.
- Uniform Title
- Fang Lizhi zi zhuan. English
- Alternative Title
- Fang Lizhi zi zhuan.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Biography.
- Autobiographies.
- Note
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-3554
- ISBN
- 9781627794992 (hardcover)
- 1627794999 (hardcover)
- LCCN
- 2015023833
- OCLC
- 911265974
- Author
- Fang, Lizhi, author.
- Title
- The most wanted man in China : my journey from scientist to enemy of the state / Fang Lizhi ; translated by Perry Link.
- Publisher
- New York : Henry Holt and Company, [2016].
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Chronological Term
- 1976 - 2002
- Added Author
- Link, Perry, 1944- translator.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-3554