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这是许良英先生侄子许从平以二十余年亲身陪伴与大量第一手资料写就的珍贵回忆录。
许良英（1920–2013），中国著名科学史家、爱因斯坦著作的主要翻译者和传播者、中国自然辩证法学科的奠基人之一。他早年投身革命，曾任浙江大学地下党负责人；1957年因公开反对“反右”运动被打成“极右分子”，随后在故乡当了二十年农民；文革期间以死抗争，历经磨难仍坚持编译三卷本《爱因斯坦文集》，将爱因斯坦的科学与民主思想引入中国。改革开放后，他重返学界，成为中国知识分子追求民主、自由、人权的标志性人物，与方励之共同发起多项重要民主呼吁，被国际社会誉为“中国的良心”。
本书以亲历者的视角，真实再现了许良英从忠诚的地下党员到坚定民主思想者的心路历程，记录了他童年求学、革命岁月、右派苦难、重返学界以及晚年为民主奔走的完整人生。书中不仅展现了一个科学家在极端困境中对真理的坚守，更深刻揭示了中国二十世纪知识分子在科学、民主与人格独立之间的艰难求索。
这是一部关于良知、勇气与精神独立的珍贵文献，也是献给所有追求科学精神、自由思想与人格尊严者的纪念之作。

A deeply personal and meticulously documented memoir by Xu Congping, nephew of the Chinese scientist and democracy advocate Xu Liangying.
Xu Liangying (1920–2013) was one of modern China’s most respected intellectuals — a pioneering historian of science, the principal translator and disseminator of Einstein’s works in China, and a founding figure in the field of dialectics of nature. Once a dedicated underground Communist and student leader at Zhejiang University, he was labeled an “ultra-rightist” in 1957 for openly opposing the Anti-Rightist Campaign. He spent the next twenty years as a farmer in his hometown, yet still managed to complete the monumental three-volume Collected Works of Einstein under extreme hardship. After his rehabilitation, he became a leading voice for democracy, human rights, and intellectual freedom, co-initiating several historic open letters with Fang Lizhi and others. Internationally recognized as “China’s conscience,” he received the New York Academy of Sciences’ Heinz R. Pagels Human Rights Award and the American Physical Society’s Andrei Sakharov Prize.
Written with firsthand knowledge and rare archival materials, this book offers an intimate and unflinching account of Xu Liangying’s extraordinary journey — from revolutionary youth to persecuted intellectual to fearless advocate of democracy. It is both a moving family memoir and a profound historical testimony to the enduring struggle for scientific truth, personal dignity, and political freedom in modern China.
A powerful tribute to a life of integrity and moral courage.