Word: fangs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same students found a quieter way to express their sentiments: at least 1,000 reportedly signed their names in souvenir albums that paid homage to the university's ousted president, Guan Weiyan. The veteran educator and physicist had been sacked for not exercising tighter control over University Vice President Fang Lizhi, an outspoken defender of liberalization who had also lost his job after the marches. As he left his office, Guan penned a calligraphic farewell to his students: "Study hard. The opportunity to serve the country will come." It sounded like a subtle plea not to give up hope...
...little cause for optimism. Purges of intellectuals continued. An ideological campaign gathered force to rescind many of the political and economic freedoms permitted recently by Hu Yaobang, the Communist Party's General Secretary, removed from his post two weeks ago and replaced by Prime Minister Zhao Ziyang. With Fang Lizhi and Author Wang Ruowang already tossed out of the party for advocating "bourgeois liberalism," the purge turned last week to the president and vice president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, who were removed from office. They had been responsible for the administration of the rebellious university in Hefei...
Even before Hu's ouster, the crackdown on dissent was under way. Early last week three prominent intellectuals were singled out for "bourgeois tendencies." On Monday it was announced on television that Astrophysicist Fang Lizhi, charged with defaming party leaders and slandering socialism, had been dismissed from his post as vice president at the University of Science and Technology in Hefei, where the student protests began in early December. Fang's boss Guan Weiyan was charged with failing to keep Fang in line and was similarly dumped from his job. Writer Wang Ruowang, scolded for maintaining liberal ideas, was expelled...
...seem far off when Hu owned up last week to "mistakes on major issues of political principles." China's newspapers also ran self- criticism, bizarrely apologizing for stories written last fall. No less chilling was the group of scientists who appeared on the evening news to speak against Fang two days after the astrophysicist's dismissal. "These days," said a middle-aged Peking office worker, "it smells like gunpowder from the Cultural Revolution...
...week's end it was clear that the government intended not only to clamp down on new demonstrations but sharply limit future political discussion and purge officials who have gone too far in advocating reform. Rumor had it that at least one official had already been removed: Fang Lizhi, a vice president of the University of Science and Technology in Hefei, who has strongly supported demands for more democracy. The biggest loser, however, may be Politburo Member Hu Qili, a leading advocate of political reform, whose position as a likely successor to Hu Yaobang as Communist Party General Secretary seems...