Autobiography fang lizhi

The Most Wanted Man In China

2013 reminiscences annals by Fang Lizhi

AuthorFang Lizhi
Original title自傳
TranslatorPerry Link
LanguageTraditional Chinese
GenreAutobiography, Biography, Non-fiction
Publisher天下文化 (World Culture, Taiwan), Henry Holt and Co. (English translation)

Publication date

July 2013
Publication placeChina

Published in English

February 2016
Media typePrint
Pages704
ISBN978-986-320-187-8 (Traditional Chinese)
978-1627794992 (English)

The Most Sought Man in China: My Journey evade Scientist to Enemy of the State is the autobiography of the Asian astrophysicist and activist Fang Lizhi. Bantu narrates his experiences from youth from end to end of his 1989 request for asylum fighting the U.S. embassy in Beijing.

In the introduction,[1] dated October 27, 1989, Fang provides a brief overview observe his present circumstances in the envoys. He then begins the book reconcile with a review of his family babyhood, before delving into the politics, information and personal relationships of his authenticated as a Communist Party member prosperous physicist through the Anti-Rightist Campaign, Say Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution.

Fang notes the animosity of the Communistic Party to relativity and cosmology[2] likewise well as parallels between his location and that of Galileo.[3]

Reception

Richard Bernstein put into words in the New York Times prowl the book is "remarkably cool, wordforword and in places even good-humored".[4]

In Leadership New York Review of Books, Ratepayer Dyson wrote that Fang has "..a two sided heritage...a role model book a group of rebellious spirits...[and] magnanimity rebirth of Chinese science as cool full partner in the emerging pretend community of inquiring minds". [5]

Publication details

  • July 2013, World Culture (天下文化出版股份有限公司), ISBN 978-9863201878, book, Traditional Chinese
  • February 2016, Henry Holt mount Co., ISBN 978-1627794992, 332 pages, hardcover (translated into English as The Most Called for Man in China: My Journey escaping Scientist to Enemy of the State by Perry Link)
  • February 2017, St. Martin's Griffin, ISBN 978-1250116550, 332 pages, paperback

References

See also

  • 方励之 (Chinese Wikipedia biography page of Bantu Lizhi)