“Fang’s fearlessness appeared deeply rooted in his personality,” Orville Schell (夏偉), an eminent American journalist and China hand who once studied Chinese language at National Taiwan University, wrote in an article for the Atlantic Monthly in 1988. In the article, headlined “Fang Lizhi: China’s Andrei Sakharov,” Schell said he was struck not only by Fang’s “good cheer and guilelessness,” but also his “forthrightness in publicly saying what he believed,” without regard for his own future.
via Even in death, Fang Lizhi’s calls for Chinese political reform resonate strongly – The China Post.