Fang Zhouzi


Fang Shimin , better known by his pen name Fang Zhouzi , is a Chinese popular scientific writer who is also well known for his campaign against pseudoscience and fraud in China. President and codirector of New Threads, a publication and website that promotes Chinese culture to the general public, Fangs aggressive campaign against allegations of academic fraud has been hotly debated while Fangs works have appeared in many Chinese publications, various Chinese scholars have accused him of vigilantism and of using populist rhetoric in academic research.

Fang Zhouzi was born in Yunxiao County, Fujian, China in September 1967. Fang stated that his pen name, Fang Zhouzi, is derived from a classical Chinese expression for two ships sailing together in his case, the two ships stand for science and literature. Fang graduated from University of Science and Technology of China in 1990 and enrolled in Michigan State University, where he obtained a Ph.D. in biochemistry in 1995. Fang then worked at various institutions as a postdoctoral researcher in molecular genetics.

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