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628:, and director of the science history research group, chief editor of the USTC academic journal, chair of the Chinese society of gravity and relativistic astrophysics. In 1984, Fang was appointed as the vice president of the USTC under president Guan Weiyan. Fang was very active in this role; for example he helped to set up the telex service for USTC. He was very popular among the students. Fang also begin to write essays for publication in popular magazines, and give lectures on a variety of topics in universities, though usually not in USTC. Many such essays and lectures expressed his liberal view on politics, reflections on history, and criticisms on 55: 601:
classic by many teachers and students, although few students are aware of it in recent years. Fang was also the first scientist in China to write popular accounts of contemporary astrophysical developments, such as cosmology and black holes. Fang's book, "Creation of the Universe" (Yuzhou de chuangsheng in Chinese) which was published in 1987, introduced basic cosmological ideas, and influenced a large number of physics and astronomy students growing up in the 1980s in China.
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their friend confessed to writing it; Li also confessed her doubts about the party. Li was expelled from the CCP, and sentenced to hard labour in Zhaitang, a town near Beijing. Fang was not immediately expelled from the party, because he played a lesser role in writing the letter, and also because he had left Peking University, where the punishment was particularly severe. However, he was removed from the nuclear program and sent to do hard labour in
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Fang also trained many younger colleagues and students in the field of astrophysics and cosmology; he was considered an excellent teacher. Fang and Li coauthored "Introduction to Mechanics", an introductory book on Newtonian mechanics and special theory of relativity. This book has been considered a
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Province, where it remains to this day. Upon arriving in Hefei in 1969, Fang, along with other "problematic members" of the faculty, were sent to do hard labour for "re-education by the worker class" in a coal mine. Fang secretly brought with him one physics book, the "Classical Theory of Fields" by
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and the Theory of Relativity in Beijing and Shanghai. Once Fang published his theory, some of the critics of the Theory of Relativity, especially a group based in Shanghai, prepared to attack Fang politically. However, by this time the "leftist" line was declining in the Chinese academia. Professor
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In 1972, the worst chaos of the Cultural Revolution was over and scientific research resumed. Fang found an opportunity to read some recent astrophysics papers in western journals, and soon wrote his first paper on cosmology, "A Cosmological Solution in Scalar-tensor Theory with Mass and Blackbody
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started. The opinions and criticisms solicited during the earlier campaign were then interpreted as "attacks on the party", and those who had expressed such opinions were labelled "rightist" and persecuted. Although no one knew about the unfinished letter, out of loyalty to the party, Fang, Li and
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Fang and his wife remained in the US Embassy until 25 June 1990, when they were allowed by Chinese authorities to leave the embassy and board a U.S. Air Force C-135 transport plane to Britain. This resolution partly came about after confidential negotiations between
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Fang was again expelled from Chinese Communist Party in January 1987, and removed from his position as the vice president of the university. He was moved to Beijing as a research scientist at the Beijing Astronomical Observatory, now a part of the
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In December 1986, college students demonstrated in over a dozen Chinese cities in demanding greater economic and political freedoms. Fang was against the student demonstration, believing it would be suppressed by the CCP; he tried to persuade the
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by reading this book in the evening. Later, in 1971, along with a number of other faculty members, he was assigned to do labour work in a brick factory, which produced the bricks for constructing the new USTC campus buildings.
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to expel them from the Party, but Hu refused. Because of his refusal, Hu Yaobang was dismissed from his position as General Secretary in January 1987, effectively ending his period of influence within the Chinese government.
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from December 1957 to August 1958. Out of political pressure, Li and Fang put their relationship on hold until early 1959, when Fang was also expelled from the CCP. In August 1958, Fang was reassigned to the faculty of the
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Fang continued to do research in astrophysics and cosmology. He published research papers even during his stay in the US Embassy in Beijing. His later research includes the study of non-Gaussianity in the
481:(Physics), Vol. 1, 163 (1972). This was the first modern cosmological research paper in mainland China. Fang assembled a group of young faculty members of USTC around him to conduct astrophysics research. 2179: 680:. He gained fame and notoriety after his essays were collected by the Chinese Communist Party and distributed to many of its regional offices, with the directive to its members to criticize the essays. 1463: 2083: 1805: 484:
At the time, conducting research on relativity theory and cosmology in China was very risky politically, because these theories were considered to be "idealistic" theories in contradiction with
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broke out in 1966. In 1969, along with other universities and research institutes, USTC was ordered to be evacuated out of Beijing, ostensibly in anticipation of an impending invasion by the
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after the reform of China in late 1970s, and resumed his party membership. During this time, he held many academic positions, including the director of the astrophysics research group of
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intervened on Fang's behalf; he pleaded the case to the party secretary of USTC at the time, Liu Da, who cancelled the cleansing order for Fang and other faculty members of USTC.
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students not to go off-campus. After two straight weeks of student demonstrations, believing that the student movement was a result of "bourgeois liberalization",
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essay competition by proposing that the periodic distribution of quasars observed can be explained if the Universe is multiply-connected, i.e. has a non-trivial
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He died in his home in Tucson on April 6, 2012, aged 76, from undisclosed causes. He was buried at East Lawn Palms Mortuary & Cemetery on April 14.
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where Peking University is located. Fang and his wife had exchanged ideas about Chinese politics with some students of Peking University, including
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Fang published a large number of papers on astrophysics and cosmology. In the late 1970s, he and his group used the luminosity of selected radio
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By the time Fang entered High School No. 4, the best in Beijing, he had become even more interested in what lay behind how things work.
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theory allows the possibility of the finiteness of space and time. During the Cultural Revolution, campaigns were waged against
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The tombstone of Fang, Lizhi, located at East Lawn Palms Mortuary & Cemetery, Tucson, Arizona. Photographed in Jan 2017
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for his "reactionary activities", viz. publishing an article critical of the government's policies on science education.
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On 5 June 1989, the day after the government cracked down on the Tiananmen Square protests, Fang and Li sought
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Dai Wensai, the most well-known Chinese astronomer at the time and chair of the Astronomy Department of
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dogma. He also emphasized social responsibility of intellectuals. In late 1986, Fang, together with
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article noted that it obtained similar results to, but appeared earlier than, the paper by Davidsen
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In February 1989, Fang mobilized a number of well known intellectuals to write an open letter to
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who was then in prison. His wife, Li, was elected to become the people's representative of the
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Hu, Danian (2004). "Organized criticism of Einstein and relativity in China, 1949–1989".
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Collection of Articles by Li-Zhi Fang (Fang Lizhi), maintained by his former students
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The Most Wanted Man in China: My Journey from Scientist to Enemy of the State
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program, while Li stayed at Peking University as a junior faculty member.
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and Liu Gang. Some of those students became student leaders during the
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17, 134 (1977)). This work was noticed by researchers outside China; a
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conference IAU-124 on "Observational Cosmology" in Beijing in 1986.
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269, 203 (1977). Fang also carried out research on topics including
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Academic staff of the University of Science and Technology of China
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by Fang, an attempted intervention by US National Security Adviser
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Profile: Fang Lizhi – Fundamental Rights, Fundamental Physics
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Pioneers of Modern China: Understanding the Inscrutable Chinese
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in 1989, given each year. He was elected an academician of the
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Fang published his first research paper on nuclear physics in
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Lilley, James. China Hands. New York: Public Affairs, 2004.
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in January 1987. For his work, Fang was a recipient of the
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Scientific Articles of Li-Zhi Fang (Fang Lizhi) Since 1989
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Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences
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named three Communist Party members to be expelled: Fang,
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in 1980. His membership was, however, revoked after the
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Living U.S.-China Relations: From Cold War to Cold War
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University of Science and Technology of China alumni
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Chinese name
family name
Fang

Beijing
Tucson, Arizona
Beijing No.4 High School
Peking University
Astrophysicist
1986 Student Demonstrations
Traditional Chinese
Simplified Chinese
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
IPA

Chinese
pinyin
astrophysicist
University of Science and Technology of China
democracy
Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
Chinese Communist Party
Robert F Kennedy Human Rights Award
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Beijing
People's Liberation Army
Beijing No. 4 High School
Chinese Communist Party
extracurricular activities

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