mao the liberal

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Mao Yushi, China's best-known liberal thinker, who runs its on independent think tank, talks about state of affiars in his nation

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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2013ASIA PROFILE8

BORNJan 14, 1929, Nanjing

CAREER

1950: Graduated in Engineer-ing from Shanghai Jiao Tong University

1950-57: Engineer on Chinese railways (also from 1970-84)

1957: Denounced as ‘right-ist’, sent to countryside in Shandong

1984-93: Member, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

1986: Visiting Scholar, Harvard University

1990: Senior Lecturer, Queensland University, Australia

1993: Co-founded Unirule Institute

2012: Awarded Milton Fried-man Prize in Advancing Liberty by the Cato Institute, Washington DC

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