Saturday, April 4, 2026

Magnolia omeiensis: Fang Lizhi: The Man Who Told the Truth - F April 3, 2026 - Stanford - Dr. Chenggang Xu & - Perry Link & All * More about free-to-students' World University and School, building on MIT OCW in Traditional Chinese (https://opencw.aprende.org/courses/translated-courses/traditional-chinese/), for free WUaS degrees - Bachelor, PhD, Law, MD, IB high school or similar, AA/AS and Master's degrees online from home in China here in brief, and as WUaS grows - Thanks #StanfordHooverInstitute #TonyTsoi, #GingerDuan, #FangKe, @perrylink , #XiaoQiang, @orvilleschell, #ChenggngXu for your great #FangLizhi: "The Man Who Told the Truth" film conversation 4/3/26 -https://www.hoover.org/events/man-who-told-truth-film-screening-discussion-honoring-fang-lizhi Grow Truth @ free #ChinaWUaS * * Ginger Duan and Bao (sp?), how might we communicate further about developing both Tibet World University and School and Mongolia World University and School for free online WUaS degrees, from home in these countries, and in their main and official languages - building on MIT OCW translated into these languages? And how might even the Chinese academics which WUaS hires help with this - and such that matriculated Tibetan students at WUaS could come into dialogue with matriculated Chinese students (and matriculated Mongolian students) too? You'll find the beginnings of Tibet World University and School here - * Tibet World University and School https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Tibet planned in the Tibetan language (s) https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Tibetan_language (planned in the main Tibetan languages, and accessible with time in Tibetan too from https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages) but, Bao (sp?), Mongolia World University and School isn't yet started from here https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States With over 300 languages and dialects spoken in China ...


Dear Dr. Xu, 

Thanks for inviting me to email you. and as a Stanford Hoover economist and with your Harvard PhD, and in knowing Fang Lizhi as family friends. (And please see my notes below of what you said in the PS).


A 
More about free-to-students' World University and School, building on MIT OCW in Traditional Chinese (https://opencw.aprende.org/courses/translated-courses/traditional-chinese/), for free WUaS degrees - Bachelor, PhD, Law, MD, IB high school or similar, AA/AS and Master's degrees online from home in China here in brief, and as WUaS grows - 


A 1
Thanks #StanfordHooverInstitute #TonyTsoi, #GingerDuan, #FangKe, @perrylink , #XiaoQiang, @orvilleschell, #ChenggngXu for your great #FangLizhi: "The Man Who Told the Truth" film conversation 4/3/26
-https://www.hoover.org/events/man-who-told-truth-film-screening-discussion-honoring-fang-lizhi Grow Truth @ free #ChinaWUaS w https://opencw.aprende.org/courses/translated-courses/traditional-chinese/?

https://events.stanford.edu/event/the-man-who-told-the-truth-a-film-screening-discussion-honoring-fang-lizhi 

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/China

(from https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States)

and
China_Law_School_at_WUaS -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/China_Law_School_at_WUaS

and
China_Medical_School_at_WUaS
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/China_Medical_School_at_WUaS

and in
the Mandarin_language_(Chinese)
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Mandarin_language_(Chinese) (planned in Traditional Chinese)

And in the WU language -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Wu_language_(Chinese)






A 2 
See too - 

China Digital Times
@CDT
Please join CDT’s Xiao Qiang along with Perry Link, Tony Tsoi and Larry Diamond for a special film screening and discussion about the life and work of Fang Lizhi, Friday April 3 at Stanford. And please help spread the word!

https://x.com/CDT/status/2038720511589388308



B 
How best for example to grow the WUaS economics' degrees as World University and School seeks to become the Harvard / MIT / Stanford / Oxbridge / Tsinghua University of the Internet, with AI and ML, and in each of all ~200 countries and in their official and main languages - and in a #RealisticVirtualEarth #ForEconomics, a #RealisticVirtualEarthForEconomics (#Hashtags on #TwitterX and #LinkedIN sometimes too)?



and here too - https://ocw.mit.edu/

with WUaS using Creative Commons' 4 licensed MIT OCW, which says anyone can 1) share it freely, 2, adapt it, eg with AI and ML, but 3) non-commercially (so WUaS will be free to students, and as WUaS seeks reimbursement from departments of education in all of China's provinces, and from the China Ministry of Education, per student per year along the lines of what it costs to go to Stanford, Harvard or MIT for example, prorated for rich, middle-income, and poor countries, and among all ~200 WUaS countries, per the Olympics).


C
And how best to reach out about China World University and School to Beijing and the Chinese Department of Education, and the organizations and individuals in China who would make the decisions about making free-to-students' MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School accessible to all 1.4 billion Chinese people? Thoughts about this in particular, Dr. Xu?


D
Please see both wings of WUaS below; 

i 
the 501 c 3 US federal non-profit tax exempt public charity World University and School wing - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ - and 

ii 
The WUaS Corporation wing - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html - a for profit general stock company legal entity in the state of California, - for the Academic Press at World University (even for print-on-demand books in-stores) and School and the physical-digital WUaS Educational Services' Stores for books, computers, robotics, groceries, hospital technologies etc (and think a Walmart produce line, and potentially a store-in-a-store model in Walmart - )
and also 


D 1
Also WUaS has partnering emails with Stanford Mine Pi cryptocurrency free money daily - which you can get here and now : https://minepi.com/sgkmac - and in WUAS seeking to code for speakers of all 7,159 living languages and in all 200 nation states, from there WUaS further seeks to code for all 7.9 billion people on the planet, so for all 1.4 billion Chinese people, and to facilitate free universal education, people to people with wiki-learning and wiki-teaching, and potentially to end poverty by distributing Pi cryptocurrency to most of the people on the planet and thus to make it a main worldwide cryptocurrency.


D 2
Both wings, 
World Univ & Sch and the WUaS Corporation, also seek to hire, employ, make careers (faculty, STEM researchers, etc.) for 2.5 million people over the next 50-100 years, slightly larger than Walmart, which is in 19 out of 200 countries, and where World University and School WUaS seeks to be in all 200 countries, and in all their languages ... thus potentially hiring many many Chinese people, in China and around the world.


E
Regarding Fang Lizhi, and "The Man Who Told the Truth," how might it be possible to grow the truth of Science Technology Engineering, and Mathematics, STEM, especially, (but also social science degrees like Economics, and others academic disciplines in the social sciences), building on MIT OCW in Traditional Chinese, with free WUaS degrees online from home in China, and potentially for the benefit of all 1.4 billion Chinese?

World Univ & Sch, which is wiki too, seeks to grow a distributed, decentralized, internet approach to making free, highest MIT OCW-centric quality education available to all 1.4 billion Chinese in their homes - and potentially in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM.

Am emailing just you per your invitation, and more later to all the panelists, and thank you,

All the best, thanks, Stanford regards, 
Scott GK MacLeod 


- Scott GK MacLeod  
President, CEO, Founder & Professor, Presiding Clerk and Recording Clerk (loosely in the manner of unprogrammed NtF Quakers / Friends)
at / of best STEAM CC licensed OCW, Wiki, 
World University & School (WUaS)  




PS

Chenggang Xu

intimate family friends
since the 1970s

starting with his father's work 

one of the best teachers in his life

changed way of thinking
science 
philosophy
integrity

the pioneer of astrophysics in china


leader of China's new enlightenment

in science for example


mastermind of the Tiananmen movement? - 'spiritually' he is the person

regarding human rights and democracy

challenge Communist Rule

no conspiracy and had nothing to do with the Tiananmen movement


What is the source of Fang Lizhi's ideas ?


start with the cultural revolution 

peaked at 1970 71




PPS



Chenggang Xu is a prominent economist, currently a senior research scholar at Stanford Center on China’s Economy and Institutions, reachable at cgxu@stanford.edu. He is the son of the late renowned physicist and democracy advocate Xu Liangying, not directly associated with a film on Fang Lizhi, though he works on China's political economy. [1, 2]
Key Information on Chenggang Xu:
  • Email: cgxu@stanford.edu
  • Current Positions: Senior Research Scholar, Stanford Center on China’s Economy and Institutions (2022–present); Visiting Professor at Imperial College London and London School of Economics.
  • Research Areas: Political Economics, Institutional Economics, Development Economics, China’s Political Economy, Law and Finance, Digital Economy (AI).
  • Education: Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University (1991); M.Sc. in Engineering from Tsinghua University (1982)





AND 


Chenggang Xu is a Senior Research Scholar at the Stanford Center on China's Economic and Institutions, and a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and a Visiting Professor, Department of Finance, Imperial College London.

Chenggang received his PhD in Economics from Harvard University in 1991. He previously taught at the University of Hong Kong as Chung Hon-Dak Professor of Economics, at Tsinghua University as Special-term Professor of Economics, at Seoul National University as World-Class University Professor of Economics, and at LSE as Reader of Economics. He was the President of the Asian Law and Economics Association.  He was a first recipient of China Economics Prize (2016) and a recipient of the Sun Yefang Economics Prize (2013). 

Chenggang's research is in political economics, institutional economics, law and economics, development economics, transition economics and the Chinese political economy. His research and opinions have been covered widely in the Greater China area and in the world. He is currently a board member of the Ronald Coase Institute (RCI) and a research fellow of the CEPR.




Chenggang Xu

Chenggang Xu







--


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Scottish Small Piping album #2 - Honey Piobaireachd (2022)
- Poetry! Order Book #5 Light, Float, Sit, Watsu ~ Virtually (2021, Academic Press at WUaS)

Scottish Small Piping album #1 Honey in the Bag ~ Out of the Air tune (2020)


Order Book #3 Winding Road Rainbow: Harbin, Wandering & the Poetry of Loving Bliss (2018,  Academic Press at WUaS)

Order Book #2 Haiku-ish and Other Loving Hippie Harbin Poetry (2017,  Academic Press at WUaS) 

Order Actual-Virtual Ethnographic Book #1: Naked Harbin Ethnography (2016, Academic Press at World University and School)

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Founder, President, CEO & Professor
at / of best STEAM CC licensed OCW, Wiki, 
World University & School (WUaS)  
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best STEAM CC licensed OCW, Wiki, 
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2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

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Fang Lizhi: The Man Who Told the Truth - F April 3, 2026 - Stanford - Perry Link & All


Thanks so much, 
Tony Tsoi, Ginger Duan, Fang Ke, Perry Link, Xiao Qiang, Orville Schell, and Chenggang Xu and Larry Diamond (the virtual host), 

for the excellent film Fang Lizhi: "The Man Who Told the Truth" screening and discussion - https://events.stanford.edu/event/the-man-who-told-the-truth-a-film-screening-discussion-honoring-fang-lizhi.

Greetings, and it was especially great to speak with you Fang Ke - son of Fang Lizhi. (And could someone please forward this to Fang K, and film-maker Tony Tsoi, whose emails I couldn't find in a Google search).

I've just emailed Dr. Chenggang Xu at Stanford about this which you will find here - 


and here - 

Dear Dr. Xu, 

Thanks for inviting me to email you. and as a Stanford Hoover economist and with your Harvard PhD, and in knowing Fang Lizhi as family friends. (And please see my notes below of what you said in the PS).


A 
More about free-to-students' World University and School, building on MIT OCW in Traditional Chinese (https://opencw.aprende.org/courses/translated-courses/traditional-chinese/), for free WUaS degrees - Bachelor, PhD, Law, MD, IB high school or similar, AA/AS and Master's degrees online from home in China here in brief, and as WUaS grows - 


A 1
Thanks #StanfordHooverInstitute #TonyTsoi, #GingerDuan, #FangKe, @perrylink , #XiaoQiang, @orvilleschell, #ChenggngXu for your great #FangLizhi: "The Man Who Told the Truth" film conversation 4/3/26
-https://www.hoover.org/events/man-who-told-truth-film-screening-discussion-honoring-fang-lizhi Grow Truth @ free #ChinaWUaS w https://opencw.aprende.org/courses/translated-courses/traditional-chinese/?

https://events.stanford.edu/event/the-man-who-told-the-truth-a-film-screening-discussion-honoring-fang-lizhi 

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/China

(from https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States)

and
China_Law_School_at_WUaS -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/China_Law_School_at_WUaS

and
China_Medical_School_at_WUaS
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/China_Medical_School_at_WUaS

and in
the Mandarin_language_(Chinese)
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Mandarin_language_(Chinese) (planned in Traditional Chinese)

And in the WU language -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Wu_language_(Chinese)






A 2 
See too - 

China Digital Times
@CDT
Please join CDT’s Xiao Qiang along with Perry Link, Tony Tsoi and Larry Diamond for a special film screening and discussion about the life and work of Fang Lizhi, Friday April 3 at Stanford. And please help spread the word!

https://x.com/CDT/status/2038720511589388308



B 
How best for example to grow the WUaS economics' degrees as World University and School seeks to become the Harvard / MIT / Stanford / Oxbridge / Tsinghua University of the Internet, with AI and ML, and in each of all ~200 countries and in their official and main languages - and in a #RealisticVirtualEarth #ForEconomics, a #RealisticVirtualEarthForEconomics (#Hashtags on #TwitterX and #LinkedIN sometimes too)?



and here too - https://ocw.mit.edu/

with WUaS using Creative Commons' 4 licensed MIT OCW, which says anyone can 1) share it freely, 2, adapt it, eg with AI and ML, but 3) non-commercially (so WUaS will be free to students, and as WUaS seeks reimbursement from departments of education in all of China's provinces, and from the China Ministry of Education, per student per year along the lines of what it costs to go to Stanford, Harvard or MIT for example, prorated for rich, middle-income, and poor countries, and among all ~200 WUaS countries, per the Olympics).


C
And how best to reach out about China World University and School to Beijing and the Chinese Department of Education, and the organizations and individuals in China who would make the decisions about making free-to-students' MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School accessible to all 1.4 billion Chinese people? Thoughts about this in particular, Dr. Xu?


D
Please see both wings of WUaS below; 

i 
the 501 c 3 US federal non-profit tax exempt public charity World University and School wing - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ - and 

ii 
The WUaS Corporation wing - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html - a for profit general stock company legal entity in the state of California, - for the Academic Press at World University (even for print-on-demand books in-stores) and School and the physical-digital WUaS Educational Services' Stores for books, computers, robotics, groceries, hospital technologies etc (and think a Walmart produce line, and potentially a store-in-a-store model in Walmart, and see - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2026/03/walmart-wuas-walmart-ceos-new-cpo-dear.html ) ...


D 1
Also WUaS has partnering emails with Stanford Mine Pi cryptocurrency free money daily - which you can get here and now : https://minepi.com/sgkmac - and in WUaS seeking to code for speakers of all 7,159 living languages and in all 200 nation states, from there WUaS further seeks to code for all 7.9 billion people on the planet, so for all 1.4 billion Chinese people, and to facilitate free universal education, people to people with wiki-learning and wiki-teaching, and potentially to end poverty by distributing Pi cryptocurrency to most of the people on the planet and thus to make it a main worldwide cryptocurrency.


D 2
Both wings, 
World Univ & Sch and the WUaS Corporation, also seek to hire, employ, make careers (faculty, STEM researchers, etc.) for 2.5 million people over the next 50-100 years, slightly larger than Walmart, which is in 19 out of 200 countries, and where World University and School WUaS seeks to be in all 200 countries, and in all their languages ... thus potentially hiring many many Chinese people, in China and around the world.


E
Regarding Fang Lizhi, and "The Man Who Told the Truth," how might it be possible to grow the truth of Science Technology Engineering, and Mathematics, STEM, especially, (but also social science degrees like Economics, and others academic disciplines in the social sciences), building on MIT OCW in Traditional Chinese, with free WUaS degrees online from home in China, and potentially for the benefit of all 1.4 billion Chinese?

World Univ & Sch, which is wiki too, seeks to grow a distributed, decentralized, internet approach to making free, highest MIT OCW-centric quality education available to all 1.4 billion Chinese in their homes - and potentially in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM.

Am emailing just you per your invitation, and more later to all the panelists, and thank you,

All the best, thanks, Stanford regards, 
Scott GK MacLeod 


- Scott GK MacLeod  
President, CEO, Founder & Professor, Presiding Clerk and Recording Clerk (loosely in the manner of unprogrammed NtF Quakers / Friends)
at / of best STEAM CC licensed OCW, Wiki, 
World University & School (WUaS)  


I've blogged about this today Sat 4/4/26 here - 
https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2026/04/magnolia-omeiensis-fang-lizhi-man-who.html (where you'll also find many WUaS Monthly Business Meeting and WUaS Weekly Business Meeting "Minutes", and "video Minutes")

and here - 



Ginger Duan and Bao (sp?), how might we communicate further about developing both Tibet World University and School and Mongolia World University and School for free online WUaS degrees, from home in these countries, and in their main and official languages - building on  MIT OCW translated into these languages? And how might even the Chinese academics which WUaS hires help with this - and such that matriculated Tibetan students at WUaS could come into dialogue with matriculated Chinese students (and matriculated Mongolian students) too? 

You'll find the beginnings of Tibet World University and School here - 

Tibet World University and School 

planned in the Tibetan language (s)
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Tibetan_language (planned in the main Tibetan languages, and accessible with time in Tibetan too from https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages)

but, Bao (sp?), Mongolia World University and School isn't yet started from here

With over 300 languages and dialects spoken in China, "over 10 indigenous languages—including Oirat, Buryat, and Turkic languages like Kazakh—alongside widespread use of Russian and English as second languages in Mongolia," and 

"While Standard Tibetan is the primary language, [of Tibet] the Tibet Autonomous Region and the surrounding Tibetan Plateau are home to significant linguistic diversity, with some estimates citing over 50 distinct local tongues and dialects. Beyond Mandarin Chinese, local speakers use a variety of Tibetic languages, including major regional dialects like Lhasa (Central), Amdo, and Kham" ...


how might WUaS develop free to students' degrees in both STEM and the Social Sciences, Arts and the Humanities, and with an online Music School at WUaS - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Music_School - for all instruments ever, in all languages ever, each a Wiki Subject page for open wiki-teaching and wiki-learning, as well as free degrees in performance, composition, theory, ethnomusicology AND FOR ONLINE MUSIC-MAKING in real-real time or quasi-real time, and similar - to begin?

Appreciating greatly the legacy of Fang Lizhi  - and the energy or spirit of openness regarding the creation in film and history of this Chinese academic physicist dissident,  in the screening room at Stanford, thanks to Fang Lizhi: "The Man Who Told the Truth" I think.

How much were eg Stanford and Berkeley student exchanges occurring with China and studying at Chinese Universities with Chinese academics (and re even the Chinese Doonesbury cartoon character possibly at Yale University too 'Ching "Honey" Huan' from the early 1970s and see the PPPPPPS, where Stanford faculty member Scotty MacLennan, also a Unitarian Universalist minister and lawyer, in the GSB was roommates at Yale I think with Garry Trudeau the creator of the Doonesbury cartoon - did you happen to know, Orville Schell the Chinese woman she was modeled after at the US Embassy in China?), in the political openings of the 1960s, and 1970s, a time World University and School is interested in exploring even in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory, (and think Google Street View with time GMaps, TensorFlowAI, Gemini AI and at the #GcellView and #GMoleculeView levels eg for the biophysicist He Jiankui - https://share.google/aimode/o5MxyWcNnjh9OaknE - and other geneticists of China, and in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics, and #ForAgingReversal genetics, and #ForExtremeLongevity too ) where we and they, as scientists, engineers, and individuals too, could all add photos and documents and research and data and videos and text to this #RealisticVirtualEarth #ForHistory #TextInTheSidebar - and regarding a #RVE, please see Peter Norvig's INCREDIBLE #ToolifyAIWUaS article "Revolutionizing Education with Machine Learning and AI: #WorldUniversityInSchool" - https://www.toolify.ai/ai-news/revolutionizing-education-with-machine-learning-and-ai-2574306 updated March 2, 2024 - as it iterates ?

Also, thanks Perry (Link), Chenggang (Xu), Orville (Schell) and all:  in World University and School, in seeking to become the Harvard / MIT / Stanford / Oxbridge of the internet in each of all 200 countries, WUaS will seek much collaboration ahead, and in hiring faculty members and researchers too, with Stanford, and the 10 University of Californias, Tsinghua University (your alma mater, Chenggang Xu, I think), and including also especially UC Berkeley, and the Ivy League universities too, beyond Harvard, Yale, Princeton and again building on MIT OCW in 7 languages.

How can we best grow highest quality, free universal education in China, Tibet and Mongolia and at World University and School building on MIT OCW in 7 languages ... and as a way of growing the truth of academic knowledge generation via dialogue or conversation (as a form of philosophy) too?

Free-to-students' World University and School, building on MIT OCW in 7 languages, is very much a Friendly NtF Quaker leading or calling or inspiration and please see the 'PPPPPPS a'   where Quakers first may have visited China in 1886-1887 from England, and began the Quaker Sichuan Yearly Meeting then, or even well before ... and where Quakers were early on 'Friends of the Truth' as early as 1647 or 1648 in England, and regarding the title of the film about Fang Lizhi: "The Man Who Told the Truth."

Best regards, Thanks so much, Friendly salutations, 
Scott


PS
Will add this further here - 



PPS
The open WUaS Weekly Business Meeting - as WUaS deliberative process - with an invitation to join this on Mondays at 10 am Pacific Time -





PPPS 



PPPPS

Tony Tsoi, Ginger Duan, Fang Ke, Perry Link, Xiao Qiang, Orville Schell, and Chenggng Xu

Fang Ke - son of Fang Lizhi - F April 3, 2026
perry.link@ucr.edu, oschell@asiasociety.org,
 cgxu@stanford.edu, xiao@ischool.berkeley.edu, ldiamond@stanford.edu, kefang99@yahoo.com, Ginger Duan <gingerduanl@gmail.com>, Bao (sp?) <sdswgzf@gmail.com> (an UC Berkeley student originally from Mongolia, and an assistant to Ginger Duan)



PPPPPS
notes at film 


Fang Lizhi
The Man Who Told the Truth

Featuring
Tony Tsoi 
Ginger Duan, Fang Ke, Perry Link, Xiao Qiang, Orville Schell, and Chenggng Xu
Hosted by Larry Diamond


Tony Tsoi
He is also in exile 


"someone who tells the truth in closed society" Orville Schell

sounds like a bomb going off ... 
the life of my parents would again be turned upside down 


lived in the US embassy in China - Beijing ?

shook hands with the ambassador and board a plane

professor at the University of Arizona

"How to live a dignified life in exile?"  - question of Xiao Qiang 萧强 ...

he lives with cactus ... and that what Xiao Qiang 萧强  ..thinks is dignified life 


Next on dais

 Fang Ke, Perry Link, 

IN 1992, I traveled to Tucson to meet my parents

their sparsely furnished flat paralleled the one we lived in Beijing 3 decades earlier in 1962 


Son 
 Fang Ke,
After 1968
his university was relocated to southern China


In 1972, he first published his first paper in China
relativistic physics

political side
who wanted to do his physics


firsts paper in 1972 ... about the big bang theory 


next year about quasar - closed ??


5 panelists next

Orville Schell

His wife and he got to know Fang Lizhi

accidental dissident

He couldn't help but tell the truth

a revolution where anyone telling the truth 

When Fang Lizhi went into US embassy in Beijing

1989???

all 3 buildings of embassy 
were surrounded by the Chinese Liberation Army


Teddy Kennedy called Orville Schell


what Fang Lizhi wanted to share was scientific realism 

was shocking in China at the time



Xiao Qiang
was asked was what was the source of his truth

"May our universe bless us"


Was shaped by classical Chinese culture

Was not a Christian


Speaking from the deepest place he inhabited 




Ginger Duan

Fang Lizhi 
isn't known in China

thanks to Tony Tsoi for making this film 
 
Tibetan scholar

Fang Lizhi met with His Holiness the Dalai Lama

solve the Tibetan issue later


China scholars should open a space for a dialogue between Chinese students and Tibetan students 


Fang Lizhi gained his freedom in his exiled life




Chenggang Xu

intimate family friends
since the 1970s

starting with his father's work 

one of the best teachers in his life

changed way of thinking
science 
philosophy
integrity

the pioneer of astrophysics in china


leader of China's new enlightenment

in science for example


mastermind of the Tiananmen movement


'spiritually' he is the person

regarding human rights and democracy

challenge Communist Rule

no conspiracy and had nothing to do with the Tiananmen movement


what is the source of Fang Lizhi's ideas 


start with the cultural revolution 

peaked at 1970 71





PPPPPPS

Who was Doonesbury's Chinese woman character?

The primary Chinese woman character in Doonesbury is Ching "Honey" Huan. [1, 2]
  • Role: Introduced on January 22, 1976, she was originally the interpreter for Uncle Duke during his time as the U.S. Ambassador to China.
  • Characterization: She was characterized as highly competent, politically savvy, and intelligent, often managing Duke's chaotic schemes.
  • Relationship to Duke: Despite being the target of Duke's abuse and disinterest, she was obsessively in love with him for decades, functioning as his "hypercompetent sidekick" before finally leaving him in 2006.
  • Inspiration: Honey Huan was loosely based on Tang Wensheng (also known as Nancy Tang), a Chinese interpreter born in New York who was a prominent figure during the Nixon era in China 






AND 
PPPPPPS a

When were Quakers first missions to China?


Quaker missions to China began in the late 19th century, with the earliest efforts starting around 1886–1887. British Quakers focused on Sichuan (West China) starting in 1887, while American Quakers from Ohio began work near Nanking (Nanjing) around the same period, establishing schools and medical missions. [1, 2, 3]
Key details regarding early Quaker missions:
  • First Missionary: Robert Davidson, sent by British Friends, was among the first Quaker missionaries to reach China in 1886-1887.
  • Sichuan Work: British Friends Foreign Mission Association (FFMA) established a lasting presence in Sichuan, establishing the Sichuan Yearly Meeting in 1904.
  • Nanjing Mission: Ohio Yearly Meeting sent nurse Esther Butler to Nanking in 1887, focusing on education and healthcare for women.
  • Focus: Unlike some other missions, Quakers in China focused on education, medicine, and establishing the West China Union University, often working with local communities. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Missionary activity continued until foreign Quakers left, primarily in 1951






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no longer these kinds of things are going to be taught in universities ...


starting  in 1981??
CCP targeted him as most significant figure 

Eventually in 1987, CCP purged Fang Lizhi him formally
and also OHui Yo bung








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ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Tony Tsoi lived an interesting dual life in Hong Kong: he was on the one hand an investment banker and active participant of the business community, and at the same time a writer and outspoken media commentator. In 2012, the year Fang Lizhi died and Xi Jinping came to power, Tony founded an online newspaper Stand News (formerly House News) which became one of the most trusted and popular media organisations in Hong Kong. The Man Who Told the Truth is his first documentary film.

Ginger Duan is the founder of Star Shiner, a grassroots initiative focused on mobilizing Chinese-speaking diaspora communities to engage in civic life and free expression. Through projects such as public events, transcription of critical discussions, and community-building efforts, she works to foster a more socially conscious and participatory diaspora network. A former NGO worker in China, Ginger has hands-on experience working with diverse ethnic communities in rural Western China, where she conducted fieldwork research and community-based filmmaking initiatives. Now based in the Bay Area, she is developing an independent Tibetan–Chinese media platform (Chinese Youth Stand for Tibet) and actively advocates for Tibetan freedom in the Chinese-speaking world.

Perry Link is a scholar of Chinese language and literature who retired from Princeton University in 2008 and then taught at the University of California, Riverside, until 2024.  He got to know Fang Lizhi in 1988 while serving as director of the Beijing office of the National Academy of Sciences’ Committee on Scholarly Communication with China.  Fang’s magnetic personality, uncompromising integrity, and puckish sense of humor provided a solid basis for a friendship that lasted until Fang died in 2012.

Xiao Qiang 萧强 is a Research Scientist at the School of Information, UC Berkeley, and the Founder and Chief Editor of China Digital Times, a bi-lingual China news website. A theoretical physicist by training, Xiao Qiang studied at the University of Science and Technology of China and entered the PhD program (1986-1989) in Astrophysics at the University of Notre Dame. He became a full time human rights activist after the Tiananmen Massacre in 1989. Xiao was the Executive Director of the New York-based NGO Human Rights in China from 1991 to 2002 and vice-chairman of the steering committee of the World Movement for Democracy. Xiao was a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship in 2001. 

Orville Schell is the Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society in New York. He is a former professor and Dean at the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Schell is the author of fifteen books, ten of them about China, and a contributor to numerous edited volumes. He has written widely for many magazine and newspapers, including The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, Time, The New Republic, Harpers, The Nation, The New York Review of Books, Wired, Foreign Affairs, the China Quarterly, and The New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times.

Chenggang Xu is a Senior Research Scholar at the Stanford Center on China’s Economy and Institutions, Stanford University, a Board Member of the Ronald Coase Institute, and a friend of Professor Fang Lizhi since the 1970s. He was the Chung Hon-Dak Professor of Economics at University of Hong Kong and served as the president of Asian Law and Economics. He obtained his PhD from Harvard in 1991, was a recipient of the 2013 Sun Yefang Prize and the first recipient of the Chinese Economics Prize (2016).

Larry Diamond is the William L. Clayton Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Mosbacher Senior Fellow in Global Democracy






USCW: Speaker Series - Fang Lizhi
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Insights from the USCW: Speaker Series - Fang Lizhi on Friday, April 3, 2026

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The Hoover Institution Program on the US, China, and the World invites you to The Man Who Told the Truth: A Film Screening & Discussion Honoring Fang Lizhi on Friday, April 3, 2026 from 4:30-6:00 pm PT in the Shultz Auditorium, George P. Shultz Building.

The astrophysicist Fang Lizhi (1936-2012) was a towering figure in modern China’s pursuit of science and democracy. At mid-career, Fang chose to apply his prodigious intellectual integrity not only to the natural universe but to human affairs. The result was that he became known for (and, by China’s government, punished for) advocating the universal values of human rights and democracy. The Hoover Institution Program on the US, China, and the World invites you to the debut screening of the film The Man Who Told the Truth, a documentary made by Tony Tsoi. Following the screening, a distinguished panel of experts will discuss the film and Fang Lizhi’s life and legacy.


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The Man Who Told The Truth: A Film Screening & Discussion Honoring Fang Lizhi

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China’s Counter-Histories
Perry Link
In Sparks, Ian Johnson writes of Chinese people who risk their careers and even their lives to uncover suppressed truths about their country’s modern history.
February 27, 2025 issue

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Inaugural Fang Li-Zhi Memorial Lecture Celebrates Legacy of Science and Democracy 




Chenggang Xu is a prominent economist, currently a senior research scholar at Stanford Center on China’s Economy and Institutions, reachable at cgxu@stanford.edu. He is the son of the late renowned physicist and democracy advocate Xu Liangying, not directly associated with a film on Fang Lizhi, though he works on China's political economy. [1, 2]
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  • Email: cgxu@stanford.edu
  • Current Positions: Senior Research Scholar, Stanford Center on China’s Economy and Institutions (2022–present); Visiting Professor at Imperial College London and London School of Economics.
  • Research Areas: Political Economics, Institutional Economics, Development Economics, China’s Political Economy, Law and Finance, Digital Economy (AI).
  • Education: Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University (1991); M.Sc. in Engineering from Tsinghua University (1982)





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Chenggang Xu is a Senior Research Scholar at the Stanford Center on China's Economic and Institutions, and a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and a Visiting Professor, Department of Finance, Imperial College London.

Chenggang received his PhD in Economics from Harvard University in 1991. He previously taught at the University of Hong Kong as Chung Hon-Dak Professor of Economics, at Tsinghua University as Special-term Professor of Economics, at Seoul National University as World-Class University Professor of Economics, and at LSE as Reader of Economics. He was the President of the Asian Law and Economics Association.  He was a first recipient of China Economics Prize (2016) and a recipient of the Sun Yefang Economics Prize (2013). 

Chenggang's research is in political economics, institutional economics, law and economics, development economics, transition economics and the Chinese political economy. His research and opinions have been covered widely in the Greater China area and in the world. He is currently a board member of the Ronald Coase Institute (RCI) and a research fellow of the CEPR.











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