Life after 1972

A rare photo in 1975 shows Tsinghua University’s Jeffersonian auditorium during the Cultural Revolution. The Chinese characters above the main entrance repeat the mantra of the decade: “Long Live Chairman Mao.” Dr. Chang might have noticed this change of scenery during his 1972 visit to Tsinghua.

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The Grand Auditorium at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. 1975. The photo was taken by Yang Size, who led a curious career of his own. Yang was born and raised in Nationalist controlled Taiwan and became a left-leaning student activist at Berkeley. He got a PhD in physics at UC Berkeley in 1978 and joined the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Science in mainland China in 1979. Courtesy of Tsinghua University

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