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Fang Lizhi [fæŋ ˈliːˈdʒɪ] n (Biographies / (1936 M, Chinese, SCIENCE: physicist) born 1936, Chinese astrophysicist and human-rights campaigner, living in the US from 1990 How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| The laborious negotiations over the texts of the 1972 Shanghai Communique and 1982 Joi nt Communique on arms sales to Taiwan are exposed in considerable detail, as is the background to the 1996 Taiwan missile crisis and the awkward Fang Lizhi incident of 1989. It is no surprise, therefore, that from Linus Pauling to Andrei Sakharov, from Albert Einstein to Fang Lizhi, and from Bertrand Russell to Vaclav Havel, the most notable champions of human rights over the past half-century have included scientists and scholars. Among the writers were University of Arizona physicist Fang Lizhi, who was a university vice president at the time of the student demonstrations in 1989; former People's Daily writer Liu Binyan; and Harry Wu, who spent 19 years in Chinese labor camps and has secretly returned on several occasions to document atrocities inside the camps. |
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