Fang Lizhi 1936–2012
文化和科学是不需要政府当局的批准的，更无关于是否被通缉。“Culture and science need no government's approval — still less does it matter whether one is a wanted man.”translation by this archive
What he wrote, and what was written about him.
Fang Lizhi was an astrophysicist and a public intellectual who kept writing for more than three decades. His essays are scattered across different journals and different websites. This archive gathers them one by one, records where each came from, and keeps them available — for researchers who need to cite them and for readers who simply want to read.
Every entry carries its publication date and original source. Texts are filed in the language they were published in; where a translation exists, the two are linked.
Sections
Writings
Essays, speeches, open letters, and science writing, collected piece by piece.
9 entries
Books
Complete published works in the public domain, available as PDF.
Media
Photographs and footage, sorted by era with date, place, and source.
Remembrances
Recollections and tributes written by family, colleagues, and scholars.
News Archive
Contemporary news coverage and obituaries.
Timeline
A year-by-year line through his life, with key moments linked to the writing behind them.
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