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Link lecture at OSU
The Institute for Chinese Studies at Ohio State University is pleased to announce its inaugural lecture for the 2015-16 academic year by Professor Perry Link, Emeritus Professor of East Asian Studies, Princeton University. Details below. The lecture is open and free to the public. Everyone is welcome.
Lecture:   "Why Science Leads to Democracy: The Views of Fang Lizhi"
Speaker:   Professor Perry Link
Date:   Friday, September 4, 2015
Time:   3:40 - 5:00 pm
Venue:   Jennings Hall, Room 155 (1735 Neil Avenue)
URL: http://easc.osu.edu/events/ics/perry-link
Abstract:
Fang Lizhi, the distinguished Chinese astrophysicist who was hand-picked to work on China’s atomic bomb in the 1950s but ended three decades later as an “enemy of the state,” expelled from the Chinese Communist Party and forced into exile, writes in his autobiography how it was primarily the principles of science, not political theory or foreign influences, that caused the transformation. Fang explains, step by step, how his pursuit of science and his faith in Marxism came into conflict and how one eventually deconstructed the other.
Bio:
Perry Link, emeritus professor of Asian Studies at Princeton University, now teaches at the University of California at Riverside. Bestowed the inaugural Chancellorial Chair for Teaching Across Disciplines at the Riverside campus, Professor Link writes and teaches about Chinese language, literature, popular culture, and politics. His latest book is An Anatomy of Chinese: Rhythm, Metaphor, Politics (Harvard, 2013). His translation of Fang Lizhi's autobiography, The Most Wanted Man in China: My Journey from Science to Enemy of the State, will be published by Henry Holt & Co. in February, 2016.
by denton.2 at osu.edu on August 31, 2015
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