Word: lizhi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...integral to economic growth and freedom. That is why TIME remains committed to covering all issues, including China's continued suppression of dissidents. Indeed, when we arrived in China, we discovered that our latest issue--which included articles by the Dalai Lama and the dissident exile physicist Fang Lizhi--had been banned from the newsstands...
...writer to hero in this fifth installment of the TIME 100 was an intriguing game of free association. Some match-ups made immediate sense: "The American G.I.?" brought the response "Colin Powell." "Jackie Robinson?" "Hank Aaron, of course." Others triggered supporting epithets. "Andrei Sakharov?", for example, brought on "Fang Lizhi." Pause. "The Sakharov of China"--the press moniker attached to the dissident astrophysicist who sought refuge in the U.S. embassy after the violent crackdown on the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations. Yes, of course...
Astrophysicist Fang Lizhi helped inspire the Tiananmen Square demonstrations
...spokesman neither confirmed nor denied whether some of the key democracy leaders had been formally charged, or whether they might be brought to trial at a later date. It is possible that Beijing is still betting on what dissident Fang Lizhi has called the "Chinese amnesia," the tendency of the country's people to forget past repression. That wager has paid off before. China's leaders seem to be hoping that the rest of the world will be equally forgetful...
...Fang Lizhi talks about the hope for democracy on the mainland and advises the young that the march toward freedom can be a long...