Chinese Activist Fang Lizhi Dies in Tucson
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This June 4, 1999 file photo shows University of Arizona Physics Professor Fang Lizhi at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Ariz. Fang, one of China’s best-known dissidents whose speeches inspired student protesters throughout the 1980s, died Friday, April 6, 2012 in the United States, where he fled after China’s 1989 military crackdown on the pro-democracy movement. He was 76. (The Arizona Daily Star, James S. Wood)
Fang Lizhi, one of China’s best-known dissidents whose speeches inspired student protesters throughout the 1980s, has died in Tucson. He was about 75.
Once China’s leading astrophysicist, Fang and his wife fled to the United States after China’s 1989 military crackdown on the pro-democracy movement. In exile, he was a physics professor at the University of Arizona
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Fang inspired a generation, said Wang Dan, his friend and fellow U.S.-based exiled dissident, who announced the death on Facebook and Twitter.
“I hope the Chinese people will never forget that there was once a thinker like Fang Lizhi. He inspired the ‘89 generation, and awoke in the people their yearning for human rights and democracy,” Wang wrote. “One day, China will be proud to once have had Fang Lizhi.”
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