Autobiography fang lizhi
The Most Wanted Man In China
2013 reminiscences annals by Fang Lizhi
Author | Fang Lizhi |
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Original title | 自傳 |
Translator | Perry Link |
Language | Traditional Chinese |
Genre | Autobiography, Biography, Non-fiction |
Publisher | 天下文化 (World Culture, Taiwan), Henry Holt and Co. (English translation) |
Publication date | July 2013 |
Publication place | China |
Published in English | February 2016 |
Media type | |
Pages | 704 |
ISBN | 978-986-320-187-8 (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)