Mao the Liberal
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18 , 2013 ASIA PROFILE 8 BORN Jan 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 l l l l l l l l
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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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