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Archive Home > 2012 > April > 08 > Fang, one of China’s best-known dissidents, inspired ’80s protests

Fang, one of China’s best-known dissidents, inspired ’80s protests

By Michael Wi / The Bulletin
April 8, 2012

BEIJING — Fang Lizhi, whose advocacy of economic and democratic freedoms shaped China’s brief era of student dissent that ended with the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and his exile, died Friday in Tucson, Ariz., his son, Fang Ke, said Saturday.

Fang was 76. The cause of death was not known, his....

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