Fang Lizhi
Fang Lizhi was a Chinese astrophysicist, vice-president of the University of Science and Technology of China, and activist whose liberal ideas inspired the pro-democracy student movement of 1986–87 and, finally, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Fang was considered as one of the leaders of the New Enlightenment in the 1980s. Because of his activism, he was expelled from the Chinese Communist Party in January 1987.
Background
- Born in
- Beijing
- Educated at
- Peking UniversityUniversity of Science and Technology of China
- Awards
- 🏆 Freedom Award🏆 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award🏆 Dwight Nicholson Medal for Outreach
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"A rising economic power that violates human rights is a threat to peace."
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1936
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