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Fang Lizhi was one of the most prominent scientists of the People’s Republic of China; he worked on the country’s first nuclear program and later became one of the world’s leading astrophysicists. But his devotion to science and the pursuit of truth led him to question the authority of the Communist regime. That got him into trouble.

In 1957, after advocating reforms in the Communist Party, Fang―just twenty-one years old―was dismissed from his position, stripped of his Party membership, and sent to be a farm laborer in a remote village. Over the next two decades, through the years of the Anti-Rightist Movement, the Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution, Fang several times was denounced and rehabilitated; in the process he saw the pettiness, absurdity, and horror of the regime’s excesses. In time his struggle gathered widespread support, and by the late 1980s Deng Xiaoping viewed him as public enemy number one.

When the crackdown came in June 1989, Fang and his wife took refuge in the U.S. embassy, where they hid for more than a year before being allowed to leave the country. During that time Fang wrote this memoir, The Most Wanted Man in China, a story he tells with vivid detail and disarming humor. It is a testament to the importance of remaining true to one’s principles in an unprincipled time and place.

Download The Most Wanted Man in China My Journey from Scientist to Enemy of the State Fang Lizhi Books

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Product details Paperback 352 pages Publisher St. Martin's Griffin; Reprint edition (February 14, 2017) Language English ISBN-10 1250116554

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The Most Wanted Man in China My Journey from Scientist to Enemy of the State Fang Lizhi Books Reviews

• A wonderful book by a remarkable man. Perhaps the most amazing thing is that he and his wife managed to enjoy life and keep a positive attitude in spite of all the tribulations and punishments meted out by the government. Although Fang was not religious you could say he lived a Christian life, much more so than many professed Christians (like Trump) here. Somewhat surprising is the picture of Deng Xiaoping as a Party thug (people forget that he ordered the Tiananmen Square massacre). Sad is Fang's accurate forecast that China would forget the massacre within a few years.
  There should however be a trigger warning for some our more sensitive souls - Sanders supporters and other socialists, those who believe in the government,.. The book will frighten you with ideas like freedom for individuals, and deluge you with multiple accounts of government thuggery, brutality, stupidity and total incompetence, like the Beijng police department's exhortatory banner "Struggle hard to fill this year's plan for the number of traffic deaths." My favorite was the central Party decision to show all the Party cadres the evil of Fang's ideas, so they made up a 200 page book of his speeches and sayings, printed 500,000 copies and sent them to every Party branch in the country, making Fang more famous and spreading his ideas across the country.
• The wit, grace and charm of Fang's memoir - and Perry Link's wonderful, thoughtful translation - make this a very engaging book to read. Because Fang comes out of this whole cultural revolution mess with enlightenment, perspective and a doubling down on science as democratic free inquiry, his lack of bitterness (though deserved) adds so much credibility to his tale.
• Until reading this book, I had never heard of this man. Interesting to me that a scientist could also be a devoted Maoist, given the repression and demand for obedience by any Communist state. His life story and struggle to pursue his profession unfettered is interesting.
• A great memoir written while he was hole up in the US Embassy in China during the Bush I administration. What he had to endure; banishment to the coal mines, to the fields, designing nuclear reactors with an abacus(!), all for simply living the life of the mind. His passion and ability in physics was his lifeline. His story is well told and honestly, even when it doesn't necessarily flatter him. A very illuminating lens to view a half century of Chinese history through. A great physicist, teacher, and man.
• You want a new hero - Fang Lizhi gives you China from the inside, from a man whoo was never bowed, never afraid to follow the evidence. He takes his place with Andrei Sakharov among those I most admire, who was brave and true and paid a price.
• An increadible story of life and suffering and survival in a brutal dictatrchip. I cannot decide if the author h enourmous courage or is completely oblvious of his actions and likely consecuence.. I have the greatest admirationfor this man and am cettain that (given the populationof China) he is one in a billion.
  
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• An excellent book that probes the struggle of an intelligent man whose mind is in conflict over the sovereignty of the collective versus the individual, the irrational versus the rational. A lucid read concerned with why we believe what we believe. Bought additional copies for my son and son-in-law.
• An incredible story of part of an astrophysicist's life. Fang Lizhi writes so well; he could have been a poet had he not opted for science. This is not a cut-and-dried account; he writes so poetically his descriptions of countrysides are very,very well done from the soul of an artist. A lovely read from start to finish. Also, an amazing translation done by the incomparable Perry Link.