Bringing Down the Great Wall: Writings on Science, Culture, and Democracy in ChinaW. W. Norton & Company, 1991 - 336 páginas In his first collection of writings to be published in English, Fang Lizhi, the world-renowned Chinese astrophysicist and human rights activist, speaks out on science, culture, and the future of democracy in China. Here is a rare glimpse into the intellect of one of the most courageously outspoken men of our time. |
Contenido
Editors Foreword | ix |
Preface | xli |
THE COSMOLOGIST | 3 |
From Newton to Einstein 1979 | 12 |
Philosophy Is a Tool of Physics 1985 | 20 |
A Note on the Interface Between Science and Religion | 30 |
The View from the Beijing | 38 |
Written at Midnight After Praising the Lord 1979 | 50 |
Democracy Reform and Modernization 1986 | 157 |
THE DISSIDENT | 189 |
My Life on May 21 1987 1987 | 200 |
Interview with Tiziano Terzani 1987 | 207 |
Learning About Democracy 1988 | 218 |
Letter to Deng Xiaoping 1989 | 242 |
Chinas Despair and Chinas Hope 1989 | 250 |
Peace Prize Speech 1989 | 258 |
A Hat a Forbidden Zone a Question 1979 | 56 |
Arashiyama Memoir 1981 | 65 |
Physics and Poetry 1985 | 74 |
THE DEMOCRAT | 85 |
The End of Old Thinking 1980 | 92 |
Reflections on Teachers Day 1985 | 122 |
On Political Reform 1986 | 135 |
Keeping the Faith 1989 | 262 |
Second Interview with Tiziano Terzani | 276 |
APPENDIX | 299 |
Open Letter of Thirtythree Intellectuals 1989 | 305 |
Decision Regarding the Expulsion of Fang Lizhi from | 314 |
| 331 | |
Términos y frases comunes
abroad academic Anhui Anti-Rightist Anti-Rightist Movement Arashiyama asked astronomy authorities basic Beijing University bourgeois Campaign Capri China Chinese Academy Chinese Communist Party Chinese intellectuals cosmology criticism Cultural Revolution democracy democratic Deng Xiaoping Deng's dictatorship dissident economic essays fact Fang Lizhi Fang's feudal foreign Four Upholds freedom Galileo Guan Hefei Hong Kong human rights ideas ideological issue Japan Japanese Keda leaders leadership Li Shuxian Liberation Liu Binyan look Lu Xun Mao Zedong Marxism Marxism-Leninism means modern natural official People's philosophy physicists physics president principles problems Qing Dynasty Question religion role science and technology scientific scientists social socialist society Soviet Union speech struggle talk teachers theory things thought Tiananmen tion Tiziano Terzani tradition truth University of Science USTC Wei Jingsheng West Western Zhao Ziyang
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