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Date: April 21, 2012
发布日：2012年4月21日
Topic:
Ciping Huang and Other Alumni of the University of Science and Technology of
China (USTC) Remember Fang Lizhi (Radio Free Asia)
标题：中科大校友忆方励之（自由亚洲电台报道）
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The
Alumni of the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) Remember
Fang Lizhi
2012-04-11
Fang
Lizhi, the astrophysicist who went into exile due to the 1989 pro-democracy
movement, suddenly died last weekend in the USA. Fang Lizhi is considered to have had a great impact on
Chinese students and the pro-democracy movement during the active-minded 1980s
in China.
Liu
Gang, who studied at both USTC and Beijing University took a class taught by
Fang Lizhi at USTC. He was sent to
jail due to the 1989 democracy movement, and later went into exile. He said at that time 1/3 of the
material in the physics books was printed in bold with the words of "the
great leaders". Some
professors would even lead the students in reading this material, and force the
students to recite it for exams.
However, Fang Lizhi suggested to students to skip over it and encouraged
students to dare to question, not to be bound by the "truth" created
by the Communist Party.
Li
Gang: "There were a couple dozen leaders for USTC, including Guo Moruo who
was the president for 20 years.
However, we are ashamed for a president like Guo, but took
Vice-President Fang as our pride.
He is a flagship of our pride.
Fang
Lizhi at 44 years old was the youngest fellow of the Chinese Academy of
Sciences (now known as "academician"). In early 1987, he was removed from the post of
Vice-President of the University of Science and Technology of China, and
expelled from the Communist Party along with three other prominent
intellectuals Zhang Xianyang, Liu Binyan, Wang Ruowang. Liu Gang believes that Fang Lizhi was
only following his academic spirit without much political intention.
Liu
Gang: "He thought of freedom of speech as a human birth right. For the development of science, people
must gather together and to discuss ideas freely. Without the exchange of ideas, we can not generate new
ideas."
Ciping
Huang, who earned high scores during the national college entrance exams and
was admitted as a prodigy child into the University of Science and Technology
of China told the reporter that the top students were often very picky about
the teachers' curriculum. However,
even the students who were not majoring in physics were willing to elect
Professor Fang's courses because not only could he make special relativity easy
to understand, he also accompanied his teaching with a lot of ancient Greek
philosophical and astronomical thought.
Ciping
Huang believes that USTC had a free atmosphere "away from the
emperors" due to its "sent down" location of Hefei in Anhui
Province. These top-notch students really excelled in both science and social
science. Yet they chose science in
those days with a strong sense of responsibility "to carry on as the
pillars of our country".
However, since the time that Fang Lizhi was suppressed and the Communist
leadership dropped in new presidents for the university, this university began
to collapse and decline.
Ciping
Huang: "When we were studying there, the University of Science and
Technology of China had the highest admission score in all of China, with more
than half of the students who had the highest score in their provinces came to
our university. But now it does
not have high ranking anymore."
Hu
Ping, chief editor of "Beijing Spring", mentioned that in the summer
of 1988 when Fang Lizhi attended a scientific conference, he was invited to
give a speech to the Chinese students and scholars at the Australian National
University in Canberra. The scene
was very warm. At that time, he
was praised as "China's Sakharov".
Hu
Ping: "Although it was suppressive in China during the 1980s, the climate
of the whole society was not the same.
The people who were more suppressed by the Communist regime became more
heroic in people's eyes and were particularly popular wherever they went."
Some
Western scholars in New York were also very concerned at the sudden death of
Fang Lizhi. After Fang Lizhi came
to the United States, he chose to live in Arizona and was more focused on
academic research. Hu Ping said
that in the past year, Fang Lizhi was seriously ill twice and
hospitalized. Last November,
Fang's heart, liver and kidney all had problems, and he was put in critical
care. But Fang recovered in a few
days. At his death, Fang Lizhi was
discussing with his colleagues through a computer about preparing for an
academic conference. Then the
person on the other end suddenly could not hear Fang's voice. His family was just absent for a little
more than 10 minutes. When they
returned, Fang's heart had already stopped beating.
Fang
Lizhi's funeral will be held in Tucson, Arizona on the 14th. On the 21st, there will be a memorial
service in New York.
The
above is a special correspondence by Zi Jing of Radio Free Asia reporting from
New York.
Link
for the original article:
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/m0411-mle-04112012141951.html?searchterm=None
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Wei
Jingsheng Foundation News and Article Release Issue: A702-W440
魏京生基金会新闻与文章发布号： A702-W440
Release
Date: April 21, 2012
发布日：2012年4月21日
Topic:
Ciping Huang and Other Alumni of the University of Science and Technology of
China (USTC) Remember Fang Lizhi (Radio Free Asia)
标题：中科大校友忆方励之（自由亚洲电台报道）
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自由亚洲电台报道:
中科大校友忆方励之
2012-04-11
曾经因“89民运”而流亡海外的天体物理学家方励之上周末在美国突然去世。方励之被认为在思想活跃的80年代对中国学生和当时的民主运动有很大的影响。
先后在中国科技大学和北京大学念书，因“六四”坐牢，后流亡海外的刘刚，在科技大听过方励之的课。他说当时的物理课本还有三分之一的印成黑体字的伟大领袖们的话，有的教授还带着学生念一遍，出题的时候还逼着学生背。而方励之都建议学生直接跳过，鼓励学生敢于质疑，不要被共产党打造的“真理”束缚。
刘刚：“科大的校长有二三十个啦，郭沫若当了科大二十年校长，但是科大人一提起郭沫若大家都感觉到以此为耻的。一提方校长大家都感到自豪，是以为自豪的一面旗帜。”
方励之44岁成为当时中国科学院最年轻的学部委员（现称“院士”）。 1987年初，他被革除中国科技大学副校长的职位，又和另外三名著名知识分子张显扬、刘宾雁、王若望一起被开除党籍。刘刚认为，方励之只是本着学术精神，并没有什么政治意图。
刘刚：“他认为言论自由是一个人的天赋人权，大家聚会，聚在一起讨论，这是发展科学也必须的。不交流思想，人就不可能产生新的思想。”
以高分进入科大少年班的黄慈萍对记者说，尖子学生往往对老师的课程也十分挑剔，但是不是学物理专业的学生都愿意去选方先生的课，因为他不仅能够深入浅出的讲狭义相对论，而且还讲很多古希腊的哲学和天文思想。
黄慈萍分析，从北京被“下放”到安徽合肥的科技大，“天高皇帝远”，有一个自由的气氛。而且这些文理科都出色的尖子学生，选择理科就读，有一种强烈的“挑起国家栋梁”的责任感。但是方励之受到打压，上面空降校长前来整肃之后，这所大学开始溃散衰败。
黄慈萍：“当年我们在的时候啊，科大是全国取分最高的学校，而且每年有一半以上的全省第一名。当然现在根本就排不上名次了。”
《北京之春》主编胡平提到，1988年夏天，方励之出席学术会议时，应邀在堪培拉国立大学给中国学生学者讲演，场面十分热烈。其时被誉为“中国的萨哈罗夫”。
胡平：“80年代虽然在整人，但是当时整个的社会气氛，气候是不一样的。那些被整的人，在民间越整越成了英雄，到哪儿去都特别受欢迎。”
纽约的一些西方中国学者对于方励之突然去世也非常关注。方励之到美国之后，选择居住在亚利桑那州，更专注在学术研究。胡平说，去年一年，方励之两次重病入院。
11月时心脏、肝和肾都出了问题，被送进濒危病室，但没几天又好了。出事当天，方励之正在电脑前和同事讨论筹备学术会议，对方突然听不到他的声音了，而家人刚离开十几分钟，回来后发现他心脏已经停止跳动。
方励之的葬礼14号将在亚利桑那州的图森举行。 21号纽约将举办追思会。
以上是自由亚洲电台特约记者紫荆发自纽约的报导。
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