The Most Wanted Man in China : My Journey from Scientist to Enemy of the State

from Carolee888

The Man Most Wanted in China by Fang Linzhi is a very informative and enjoyable memoir. I had remembered hearing about him on TV during the Tiananmen Square Massacre back in 1989. But I didn't know much about him. There is a foreword by the translator, Perry Link that sums up Fang's beliefs and h...

from tom471

I really enjoyed reading this book. I want to thank LibraryThing and the publisher, Henry Holt, for sending me this book in return for an honest review. Fang Lizhi was a physicist whose clashes with the Chinese government helped inspire the Tiananmen Square protests. He wrote this autobiography w...

from AlanaB

I just finished the book by Fang Lizhi and enjoyed it. There isn't a lot of information about China during the period of time he wrote about. I have heard about some of the atrocities implemented by the communist government led by Chairman Mao Zedong and his successors and the student massacre in...

from Paulmb

"The Most Wanted man In China" is as interesting to read as the man, Fang Lizhi, who recalls his life in Communist China. Often using humor, poetry, and local customs and legends, Fang steps the reader through his entry into the "Party", his rise as a world renown astrophysicist, and eventually h...

from streamsong

Fang Lizhi was a leading physicist in China. Unfortunately he lived under a regime that felt ideology should be able to dictate scientific truths. Fang Lizhi first enthusiastically embraced an underground revolutionary youth organization in the 1940's when he was a physics student. This organizat...