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ERIC Number: EJ419133
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1990
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Back Home from a European Tour, Fang Lizhi Laments China's Worst Tragedy: Denied a Leading Force in Social Progress, Intellectuals Succumb to Power and Seek Careers in Officialdom.
Yan, Xun
Chinese Education: A Journal of Translations, v23 n2 p86-88 Sum 1990
Presents views of astrophysicist, Fang Lizhi, concerning lack of recognition for roles intellectuals can and should play in Chinese social progress. Laments lack of employment opportunities and intellectuals' tendency to become government lackeys. Challenges intellectuals to become independent, to assume a leading role. Sees hope in the 1980s generation of intellectuals. (CH)
Descriptors: Employment Opportunities, Financial Policy, Foreign Countries, Government Role, Higher Education, Modernization, Professional Education, Recognition (Achievement), Social Change, Technological Advancement
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers: China; Compensation; Fang (Lizhi); Intellectuals