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发帖数: 4718 | 1 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/07/world/asia/07china.html?_r=1&hp
By ANDREW JACOBS and JONATHAN ANSFIELD
Published: October 6, 2010
BEIJING — With just a day until the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded, the usual
whirl of speculation over the winner is in full force, with many human
rights advocates contending that an imprisoned Chinese dissident, Liu Xiaobo
, has emerged as the favorite.
If selected, Mr. Liu, a former literature professor who has spent the last
20 years cycling in and out of Chinese jails for championing democratic
reform, would be the first Chinese citizen to win the prize. The prospect
has clearly alarmed Beijing, so much so that the Nobel Institute’s director
said last week that a senior Chinese official had warned him such a
decision would “pull the wrong strings in relations between Norway and
China.”
But the idea of selecting Mr. Liu has also stirred objections from a
somewhat more surprising contingent: a group of fellow activists.
In recent days, a group of 14 overseas Chinese dissidents, many of them hard
-boiled exiles dedicated to overthrowing the Communist Party, have been
calling on the Nobel committee to deny the prize to Mr. Liu, whom they say
would make an “unsuitable” laureate.
In a letter, the signatories accused Mr. Liu, below, of maligning fellow
activists, abandoning persecuted members of the Falun Gong spiritual
movement and going soft on China’s leaders.
“His open praise in the last 20 years for the Chinese Communist Party,
which has never stopped trampling on human rights, has been extremely
misleading and influential,” they wrote.
The letter and calls from other detractors have infuriated many rights
advocates, inside and outside of China, who say the attack distorts Mr. Liu
’s record as a longtime proponent of peaceful change.
Supporters, among them Vaclav Havel, the former Czech president and
dissident, say that Mr. Liu has been a pragmatic advocate since 1989, when
he helped persuade the students occupying Tiananmen Square to leave just as
army tanks were preparing to move in.
More recently, Mr. Liu was given an 11-year prison sentence last Christmas
for his role in shaping a manifesto, known as Charter ’08, that called for
popular elections and an end to the Communist Party’s unchallenged grip on
power.
“Liu Xiaobo has always worked to advance the peaceful democratic
transformation of Chinese society, and to avoid the violence, rebellion and
bloodshed of the past,” said Zhang Zuhua, a former high-ranking official in
the Communist Party Youth League and a chief force behind Charter ’08.
Cui Weiping, a social critic and professor at the Beijing Film Academy,
called some of Mr. Liu’s more radical opponents “highly irresponsible.”
“Just the fact that he was sentenced to 11 years in prison is enough to
answer those who question how critical he is of the government,” said Ms.
Cui, one of 10,000 Chinese who signed Charter ’08 before government censors
effectively pulled it from the Internet.
Whatever the merits of the anti-Liu Xiaobo camp, their very public
sentiments provide a window into the state of the overseas Chinese
dissidents, a fractured group beset by squabbling and competing claims of
anti-authoritarian righteousness.
Many of its prominent members fled to the United States and Europe after the
failed democracy campaign of 1989 and have tried, with limited success, to
build a broad-based movement against the Chinese government.
Even if they have differences over strategy, many intellectuals and
activists inside China describe Mr. Liu as a dynamic thinker who appealed
both to members of the party and many of its die-hard opponents.
Bao Pu, a Chinese book publisher whose father spent seven years in prison
for supporting negotiations with protesters as a top associate to the
Communist Party chief, Zhao Ziyang, said the lack of unity among dissidents
living outside China was dispiriting.
“All exile movements are fractured, but the community has reduced
themselves into oblivion,” said Mr. Bao, who lives in Hong Kong. “We have
a long way to go.”
Mr. Liu’s critics are unbowed by suggestions that their campaign against
him may play into the Chinese government’s efforts to discredit his
qualifications as a Nobel laureate.
Yi Xu, a linguistics professor in London who translated the anti-Liu letter
into English, said he had no reservations about the effort to deny Mr. Liu
the award.
“I don’t believe the Nobel Prize is so important that once we have one,
China will be entirely changed,” Mr. Yi said. “Look, the Dalai Lama won
and China didn’t change.” | m**********n
发帖数: 27535 | | h***l
发帖数: 3048 | 3 小报成了literature professor了？
usual
Xiaobo
【在 i***a 的大作中提到】
: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/07/world/asia/07china.html?_r=1&hp
: By ANDREW JACOBS and JONATHAN ANSFIELD
: Published: October 6, 2010
: BEIJING — With just a day until the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded, the usual
: whirl of speculation over the winner is in full force, with many human
: rights advocates contending that an imprisoned Chinese dissident, Liu Xiaobo
: , has emerged as the favorite.
: If selected, Mr. Liu, a former literature professor who has spent the last
: 20 years cycling in and out of Chinese jails for championing democratic
: reform, would be the first Chinese citizen to win the prize. The prospect
| T*R
发帖数: 36302 | 4 刘晓波怎么也比某些在法拉盛混日子的人更值得人们尊敬。 | p******u
发帖数: 14642 | 5 有人反对过？好像这里的头号小将包括我在内还tmd买他赢的啊 | E*V
发帖数: 17544 | 6 me
【在 p******u 的大作中提到】
: 有人反对过？好像这里的头号小将包括我在内还tmd买他赢的啊
| p******u
发帖数: 14642 | 7 反对个鹌鹑，洋彪子老早就写好稿底，就等屁屎奖公布前登报了。可现在确实没人反对
啊，那还登个毛报纸 |
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