UID:
kobvindex_DGP1638601232
ISSN:
0305-7410
Content:
After narrating early life and times of Fang Lizhi, the physicist, the author discusses criticisms of relativistic cosmological theories in the USSR and China as bourgeois science, 1978 as a watershed year in China for Fang and the Chinese scientific community, as Deng Xiaoping comandeered supreme leadership of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) and directed the drastic change of course from class struggle to modernization. Critical re-evaluation and revision of Marxist philosophy of science, Fang's identification of deep-rooted cultural orientations in China as impediments to scientific modernizations, his role as administrator, campaign against burgeois liberalization in the country, the removal of Fang from his University of Science and Technology of China post, Tiananmen massacre and Fang's seeking and receiving political asylum at the U.S. embassy in Peking on 6.6.1989. (DÜI-Sen)
In:
The China quarterly, Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 1960, (1990), 123, Seite 459-484, 0305-7410
Language:
English
