icpc letter to british council
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An open letter from the Independent Chinese PEN Centre to the British Council, concerning the London Book Fair 2012.TRANSCRIPT
独立独立独立独立中文笔会中文笔会中文笔会中文笔会 Independent Chinese PEN Centre (ICPC)
President: Tienchi Martin-Liao, Vice-presidents: Shiying Zhao & Jiang Bo
Secretary-general: Shiying Zhao, Deputy Secretary-general: Yu Zhang
Södra Jordbrovägen 19, NB, SE-137 65 Jordbro, Sweden
Tel: +46-8-50022792 Fax: +46-8-50224191 Email: [email protected]
Press release embargoed until April 12, 2012
A Letter to the British Council on the London Book Fair April 10, 2012
Dear Madams/Sirs
It has come to our attention that for this month’s London Book Fair that you have invited the Administration
of Press and Publication of the People’s Republic of China (GAPP-PRC), which has long banned the works
written by a large number of dissident writers, among them Dr. Liu Xiaobo, laureate of the 2010 Nobel Peace
Prize. The GAPP-PRC has carefully selected 181 publishers and 31 official writers to present its own
achievement in government-approved and censored literatures.
In order to give English authors and readers a broader understanding of the situation of Chinese literature and
Chinese writers, we would like to name only a few writers whose works have been completely banned and
who had to serve in prison for their writings in China. Like Liu Xiaobo, they have lost their freedom to write
as well as their personal freedom, which is why we believe they need all more the support from the British
Council. We hope that through your support to introduce, cite and spread their literary works - fiction, verse
and prose, as well as their writings which have been labelled and condemned as crimes - to their British
colleagues and the British public. Among them are many PEN members and honorary PEN members,
including the literary critic and poet Liu Xiaobo, presently serving his 11-year imprisonment, and his wife
Liu Xia, a poet who has been held under house arrest for a year and a half; Zhu Yufu, a writer recently
sentenced to seven years in prison mainly for a poem he wrote after his release from a 9-year imprisonment;
Yang Tongyan (aka Yang Tianshui), a novelist and poet serving his 12-year sentence in jail after a previous
10-year imprisonment; Shi Tao, a journalist and poet serving his 10-year imprisonment; Nurmuhemmet
Yasin, an Uighur novelist and poet serving his 10-year imprisonment; Tan Zuoren, an environmentalist and
writer serving his 5-year imprisonment; Zhang Jianhong (aka Li Hong), a poet and novelist who died soon
after his release on medical parole after suffering complete paralysis due to his stay in prison; Dr. David Tsui
(aka Xu Zerong), an Oxford scholar who was released last year after serving 11 years in prison; Yu Jie, an
author who has been forced to take asylum in the United States this year after he was silenced by brutal
beatings and tortures for his book for a period of over one year; Liao Yiwu, a poet and author who has been
forced into exile in Germany last year; Zhou Qing, a writer of Munich City whose works have been banned
in China; Jiao Guobiao, a Beijing-based author whose works have been banned in China; Ma Jian, a
London-based novelist, and Bei Ling, a Germany-based poet and publisher, both of whom were denied entry
to China last year, and many others. Particularly, we wish British and international writers and visitors of the
London Book Fair to hear the voice of Ms. Woeser, a Tibetan writer restricted at her home in Beijing, to
help the general public understand the tragic events of continuous and large-scale self-immolations in Tibet,
while dozens of Tibetan writers and scholars who have raised their voice about the political situation in Tibet,
have been imprisoned there, including Domal Kyab, Tashi Rabten, Jangtse Donkho, Buddha, Kalsang
Jinpa, Dokru Tsultrim, Kunchok Tsephel Gopey Tsang and Kunga Tseyang. In PEN’s case lists alone
there are over 40 writers imprisoned in China for their writings.
独立独立独立独立中文笔会中文笔会中文笔会中文笔会 Independent Chinese PEN Centre (ICPC)
President: Tienchi Martin-Liao, Vice-presidents: Shiying Zhao & Jiang Bo
Secretary-general: Shiying Zhao, Deputy Secretary-general: Yu Zhang
Södra Jordbrovägen 19, NB, SE-137 65 Jordbro, Sweden
Tel: +46-8-50022792 Fax: +46-8-50224191 Email: [email protected]
The British Council has emphasized that the Chinese writers are being invited for their writings in and about
China, in order to broaden the understanding of Chinese literature in Britain and to promote cultural
exchange between the two countries. We cannot but ask: to understand Chinese literature, should the British
people rely on the recommendations by the Chinese government alone? Is there no need to learn about the
authors who will never be able to get a recommendation from the government and whose works have been
banned in China? Should Václav Havel have been ignored because he was imprisoned while his works had
been banned by the former Czechoslovakian authorities? Should Joseph Brodsky’s creations not have been
considered a part of Russian literature when he was jailed in the former Soviet Union or after he was forced
into exile? Should Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie no longer be able to promote cultural exchange between the
United Kingdom and India? We believe that such a view, which the British Council is now running the risk
of emphasizing, is unfair to the many writers who have been banned, imprisoned in, or exiled from China.
London is the birthplace of PEN International. It is in the British tradition of humanism to be concerned
about all the writers who are politically persecuted and to promote their release from prison. It is on this
basis that we sincerely request the British Council to draw attention to the situation of the writers whose
works are banned in China.
We have also noted that you are using the term “Chinese literature". As the official, government approved
writers generally represent the government, the official literature allowed by GAPP-PRC is only a very
limited part of Chinese literature, mainly representing so-called "socialist literature with Chinese
characteristics". It cannot but reflect far less than a full view of Chinese literature. Chinese literature must
include independent literature, beyond official censorship and banning, heretical literature, underground
literature, prison literature and exile literature. Therefore, please do not support the Chinese government’s
GAPP-PRC’s misleading presentation for British authors and readers.
A society where writers have lost their human rights and professional freedom under the conditions restricted
by their government is not a free society. If the British Council wishes to promote an authentic cultural
exchange in a free and civilized way, please do not disregard the independent writers whose works are
dedicated to shaping a Chinese civil society, especially those who has lost freedom and whose works have
been banned by GAPP-PRC to present at the Book Fair.
We are looking forward to hearing from you.
Kind regards,
Signed by
Independent Chinese PEN Centre
German PEN Center
Center PEN Swiss Romand
San Miguel PEN Center
Portuguese PEN Center
PEN The Netherlands
独立独立独立独立中文笔会中文笔会中文笔会中文笔会 Independent Chinese PEN Centre (ICPC)
President: Tienchi Martin-Liao, Vice-presidents: Shiying Zhao & Jiang Bo
Secretary-general: Shiying Zhao, Deputy Secretary-general: Yu Zhang
Södra Jordbrovägen 19, NB, SE-137 65 Jordbro, Sweden
Tel: +46-8-50022792 Fax: +46-8-50224191 Email: [email protected]
Lithuanian PEN Centre
Sydney PEN Center
PEN Centre for German-speaking Writers Abroad
PEN Canada
Centre Québécois du PEN
Uyghur PEN Center
PEN Center of Tibetan Writers Abroad
PEN Esperanto, Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC)
PEN Flanders Center, Board member Geertrui Daem, head of WiPC Xavier Roelens, members Prof.
Joris Gerits, Frank De Vos and Hilde Keteleer
Dr. Bashabi Fraser, Edinburgh Napier University, Member of Scottish PEN Center
Ulrich Schreiber, Director of International Literature Festival, Berlin
Prof. Gereon Sievernich, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
Beijing Spring
Qi's Cultural Foundation
Tendency Inc. (Publisher, Taiwan)
(more to join)
For more information, contact
Independent Chinese PEN Center (ICPC)
1) Tienchi Martin-Liao, President,
Tel: +49 176 5472 3721, +49-176 5472 3721(m)
email: [email protected]
2) Patrick Poon, Executive Secretary
Tel: +852-94173765
email: [email protected]
3) Yu Zhang, Coordinator of Press & Translation Committee
Tel: +46-8-50022792
email: [email protected], [email protected]
Websites: http://www.chinesepen.org/english and http://www.liuxiaobo.eu/
独立独立独立独立中文笔会中文笔会中文笔会中文笔会 Independent Chinese PEN Centre (ICPC)
President: Tienchi Martin-Liao, Vice-presidents: Shiying Zhao & Jiang Bo
Secretary-general: Shiying Zhao, Deputy Secretary-general: Yu Zhang
Södra Jordbrovägen 19, NB, SE-137 65 Jordbro, Sweden
Tel: +46-8-50022792 Fax: +46-8-50224191 Email: [email protected]
Appendix: The Writers in Need for Your Concern and Support
1. LIU Xiaobo & LIU Xia
Name LIU Xiaobo
Sex Male
Birth date 1955-12-28
Birth place Changchun City, Jilin Province
Resident place Beijing City
Education BA in literature, Jilin University (1982) and PhD in literature (1988) at Beijing
Normal University
Profession Freelance writer and human right activist (former President and current Honorary
President of ICPC, Honorary member of German, American, Portuguese, Czech and
Sydney PEN Centers)
Date of arrest 2008-12-08 (residential surveillance),2009-06-23 (arrested)
Organ of arrest Public Security Bureau of Beijing City
Cause of arrest Initiating and signing the Charter 08, a declaration calling for political reform and
human rights, and publishing dissident articles overseas
Charge Inciting of subversion of State power
Date of sentence 2009-12-23 (hearing), 2009-12-25 (verdict), 2010-02-11 (appeal)
Organ of sentence Beijing First Intermediate People’s Court, Beijing High People’s Court (appeal)
Sentence 11 years imprisonment and 2 years deprivation of political rights
Defender Lawyers MO Shaoping (barred from this case), SHANG Baojun and DING Xikui
Place of jail No. 1 Detention Center of Beijing City; since 2020-05-26, Jinzhou Prison, Nanshan
Road 86, Taihe District, 121013 Jinzhou City, Liaonin Province
Situation in jail OK
Date of release 2020-06-21
Since 22 October 2010, two weeks after the Nobel announcement was made, Liu Xiaobo’s wife Liu Xia, a
poet and photographer, has been held incommunicado under strict house arrest at her home in Beijing and is
denied any contact with the outside world.
独立独立独立独立中文笔会中文笔会中文笔会中文笔会 Independent Chinese PEN Centre (ICPC)
President: Tienchi Martin-Liao, Vice-presidents: Shiying Zhao & Jiang Bo
Secretary-general: Shiying Zhao, Deputy Secretary-general: Yu Zhang
Södra Jordbrovägen 19, NB, SE-137 65 Jordbro, Sweden
Tel: +46-8-50022792 Fax: +46-8-50224191 Email: [email protected]
2. ZHU Yufu
Name ZHU Yufu
Sex Male
Birth date 1953-02-13
Birth place Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province
Resident place Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province
Education at Department of Chinese Literature at Hangzhou College, 1971
Profession Staff of Housing Management office, Shangcheng District, Hangzhou City, and editor
of Opposition Party (Member of ICPC, Honorary Member of England PEN)
Date of arrest 1999-06-19(detained) / 1999-09-15 (arrested); 2007-04-18(detained) / 2007-05-18
(arrested); 2011-03-05 (detained, 3rd),2011-04-10(arrested)
Organ of arrest Public Security Bureau of Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province (1st)
Shangcheng Branch of Public Security Bureau of Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province
(2nd )
Public Security Bureau of Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province (3rd)
Cause of arrest Founding the magazine of Opposition Party for Chinese Democratic Party, distributing
its articles on internet, and communicating with overseas (1st);
Publishing dissident articles and having troubles with police(2nd) ;
Publishing dissident articles (3rd)
Charge Subversion of the state power (1st); obstructing the execution of official duties (2
nd);
inciting subversion of the state power (3rd)
Date of sentence 1999-11-09, 1999-12-10 (appeal); 2007-07-10 (2nd) , 2008-04-09 (retrial); 2012-02-10
(3rd)
Organ of sentence Hangzhou Intermediate People's Court, Zhejiang High People's Court (appeal);
Shangcheng People's Court, Hangzhou Intermediate People's Court(retrial), Zhejiang Province(2nd);
Hangzhou Intermediate People's Court, Zhejiang Province (3rd)
Sentence 7 Years imprisonment and 3 Years deprivation of political rights (1st)
2 Years imprisonment and two years, four months and 26 days deprivation of political
rights(2nd); 7 Years imprisonment and 3 Years deprivation of political rights (3
rd)
Defender Lawyer MIAO Weichuan (1st); Lawyer MO Shaoping (2
nd); Lawyer LI Dunyong (3
rd)
Place of jail Zhejiang No. 6 Prison, Haining City (1st); Zhejiang No. 2 Prison, Hangzhou, Zhejiang
Province (2nd); Detention Center of Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province (3
rd)
Situation in jail OK
Date of release 2006-09-14(1st); 2009-04-18 (2
nd); 2018-03-04 (3
rd)
独立独立独立独立中文笔会中文笔会中文笔会中文笔会 Independent Chinese PEN Centre (ICPC)
President: Tienchi Martin-Liao, Vice-presidents: Shiying Zhao & Jiang Bo
Secretary-general: Shiying Zhao, Deputy Secretary-general: Yu Zhang
Södra Jordbrovägen 19, NB, SE-137 65 Jordbro, Sweden
Tel: +46-8-50022792 Fax: +46-8-50224191 Email: [email protected]
3. YANG Tongyan
Name YANG Tongyan
Pen name YANG Tianshui
Sex Male
Birth date 1961-04-12
Birth place Siyang County, Jiangsu Province
Resident place Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province
Education B. A. in History at Beijing Normal University, 1982
Profession Freelance writer, former teacher and office worker (ICPC member and Honorary member of PEN Canada, Italian PEN and PEN
America)
Date of arrest 2004-12-25 (detained), 2005-12-23 (detained for 2nd time)
Organ of arrest Public Security Bureau of Zhenjiang City, Jiangsu Province (2nd)
Cause of arrest Internet writing and publishing dissident articles, and participating in some unlawful
activities against the state power
Charge Inciting subversion of the state power (1st); subversion of the state power (2nd)
Date of sentence 2006-05-16
Organ of sentence Zhenjiang Intermediate People's Court, Jiangsu Province
Sentence 12 Years imprisonment and 4 Years deprivation of political rights
Defender Lawyer Tomas GUO/ LI Jianqiang (2nd)
Place of jail Nanjing Prison, 210012 Nanjing, Jiangsu Province (2nd)
Situation in jail Hospitalized due to seriously sufferings from tuberculous intestinal inflammation and
peritonitis in 2010, and still from diabetes and nephritis, beside arthritis and high
blood pressure
Date of release 2005-01-24 (on guarantor for pending trial), 2017-12-22 (2nd time)
独立独立独立独立中文笔会中文笔会中文笔会中文笔会 Independent Chinese PEN Centre (ICPC)
President: Tienchi Martin-Liao, Vice-presidents: Shiying Zhao & Jiang Bo
Secretary-general: Shiying Zhao, Deputy Secretary-general: Yu Zhang
Södra Jordbrovägen 19, NB, SE-137 65 Jordbro, Sweden
Tel: +46-8-50022792 Fax: +46-8-50224191 Email: [email protected]
4. SHI Tao
Name SHI Tao
Pen name Nice Ears
Sex Male
Birth date 1968-07-25
Birth place Yanchi City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region
Resident place Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province
Education B. A. in Political Education at East China Normal University, 1991
Profession Poet, freelance writer and journalist (ICPC member, Honorary Member of Sydney, German, Canada, New Zealand, Swiss
Italian, Swiss German, American, English, San Miguel, Scottish and USA PEN
centers)
Date of arrest 2004-11-24 (detained) / 2004-12-14 (arrested)
Organ of arrest National Security Bureau of Hunan Province
Cause of arrest Internet posting an article that was alleged later to have revealed the state secrets
Charge Illegally providing state secrets overseas
Date of sentence 2005-04-30 / 2005-06-02 (appeal)
Organ of sentence Shangsha Intermediate People's Court, High People's Court (appeal), Hunan Province
Sentence 10 Years imprisonment and 2 Years deprivation of political rights
Defender Lawyer Tomas GUO (disbarred), TONG Wenzhong, Mo Shaoping and DING Xikui(appeal)
Place of jail Yinchuan Prison, Yinchuan City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region
Situation in jail Better, except for stomach trouble uncured.
Date of release 2014-11-23
独立独立独立独立中文笔会中文笔会中文笔会中文笔会 Independent Chinese PEN Centre (ICPC)
President: Tienchi Martin-Liao, Vice-presidents: Shiying Zhao & Jiang Bo
Secretary-general: Shiying Zhao, Deputy Secretary-general: Yu Zhang
Södra Jordbrovägen 19, NB, SE-137 65 Jordbro, Sweden
Tel: +46-8-50022792 Fax: +46-8-50224191 Email: [email protected]
5. Nurmuhemmet YASIN
Name Nurmuhemmet YASIN
Pen name Nurmemet YASIN
Sex Male
Birth date 1974-03-06
Birth place Bachu County (Maralbeshi), Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Resident place Bachu County (Maralbeshi), Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Education Graduate from a secondary school
Profession Freelance writer and poet (Honorary member of ICPC)
Date of arrest 2004-11-29 (detained)
Organ of arrest National Security Bureau of Kashgar Prefectur, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Cause of arrest Published a short story "The Wild Pigeon" in the Kashgar Literature Journal, N0.5,
2004
Charge Inciting separatism
Date of sentence 2005-02-02
Organ of sentence People’s Court of Bachu Country; People’s Intermediate Court of Kashgar Prefecture
(appeal), Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Sentence 10 Years imprisonment and ? Years deprivation of political rights
Defender No lawyer
Place of jail Urumqi No.1 Prison, Urumqi City, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Situation in jail not allowed for family visit
Date of release 2014-11-28
独立独立独立独立中文笔会中文笔会中文笔会中文笔会 Independent Chinese PEN Centre (ICPC)
President: Tienchi Martin-Liao, Vice-presidents: Shiying Zhao & Jiang Bo
Secretary-general: Shiying Zhao, Deputy Secretary-general: Yu Zhang
Södra Jordbrovägen 19, NB, SE-137 65 Jordbro, Sweden
Tel: +46-8-50022792 Fax: +46-8-50224191 Email: [email protected]
6. TAN Zuoren
Name TAN Zuoren
Sex Male
Birth date 1954-05-15
Birth place Chengdu City, Sichuan Province
Resident place Chengdu City, Sichuan Province
Education Graduate from Huaxi Medical University
Profession Freelance writer, environmentalist, former editor of Literati magazine and former
anaesthetist (Honorary Member of ICPC)
Date of arrest 2009-03-28 (detained), 2009-04-30 (arrested)
Organ of arrest Public Security Bureau of Chengdu City, Sichuan Province
Cause of arrest Trying to compile “5.12 Student Archive”, a list of children killed in schools that
collapsed during a devastating earthquake on May 12, 2008, and in 2007 publishing at
overseas Chinese website a memo (a series of 3 parts) based on his dairy on June
Fourth Massacre in Beijing, 1989.
Charge Inciting subversion of State power
Date of sentence 2009-08-12 (hearing), 2010-02-09 (verdict); 2010-06-09 (appeal)
Organ of sentence Intermediate People’s Court of Chengdu City, High People’s Court of Sichuan
Province
Sentence 5 year imprisonment and 3 years deprivation of political rights
Defender Lawyers PU Zhiqiang and XIA Lin
Place of jail Ya'an Prison, Mingshan County, 625100 Ya'an City, Sichuan Province
Situation in jail OK
Date of release 2014-03-27
独立独立独立独立中文笔会中文笔会中文笔会中文笔会 Independent Chinese PEN Centre (ICPC)
President: Tienchi Martin-Liao, Vice-presidents: Shiying Zhao & Jiang Bo
Secretary-general: Shiying Zhao, Deputy Secretary-general: Yu Zhang
Södra Jordbrovägen 19, NB, SE-137 65 Jordbro, Sweden
Tel: +46-8-50022792 Fax: +46-8-50224191 Email: [email protected]
7. ZHANG Jianhong
Name ZHANG Jianhong
Pen name Li Hong
Sex Male
Birth date 1958-03-06
Birth place Yinxian County, Zhejiang Province
Resident place Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province
Education University graduate
Profession Freelance writer, playwright and poet (ICPC member and
Honorary Member of Melbourne PEN and PEN America )
Date of arrest 2006-09-06 (detained), 2006-10-12 (arrested)
Organ of arrest Public Security Bureau of Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province
Cause of arrest Internet writing and publishing dissent articles
Charge Inciting subversion of state power
Date of sentence 2007-03-19, 2007-05-15 (appeal)
Organ of sentence Intermediate People's Court of Ningbo City, High People's Court of Zhejiang Province
(appeal)
Sentence 6 years imprisonment and 1 year deprivation of political rights
Defender Lawyer LI Jianqiang
Place of jail Qiaosi Prison; PrisonGeneral Hospital, Hangzhou City,Zhejiang Province (since
2007-10-20)
Situation in jail Heath getting worse since being detained and applied for medical parole upon doctor’s
advice but turned down; suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis when released
Date of release 2010-06-05 (medical parole)
Zhang had been released on medical parole on 5 June 2010 after having served 3 years and 9 months
imprisonment, but under very critical conditions of his health in need for a life support to survive. He passed
away on 31 December 2010 at age 52.
独立独立独立独立中文笔会中文笔会中文笔会中文笔会 Independent Chinese PEN Centre (ICPC)
President: Tienchi Martin-Liao, Vice-presidents: Shiying Zhao & Jiang Bo
Secretary-general: Shiying Zhao, Deputy Secretary-general: Yu Zhang
Södra Jordbrovägen 19, NB, SE-137 65 Jordbro, Sweden
Tel: +46-8-50022792 Fax: +46-8-50224191 Email: [email protected]
8. Dolma Kyab
Name Dolma Kyab
Pen name Lobsang Kelsang Gyatso
Sex Male
Birth date 1976
Birth place Qilian County, Qinhai Province
Resident place Lhasa, Tibet
Education Qinhai Normal College
Profession Writer and teacher
Date of arrest 2005-03-09
Organ of arrest Public Security Bureau of Lhasa City, Tibet Autonomous Region
Cause of arrest Writing an unpublished book entitled Sao dong de Ximalayshan (“Himalaya on Stir”)
Charge Endangering state security
Date of sentence 2005-11-30
Organ of sentence Intermediate People's Court of Lhasa City, Tibet Autonomous Region
Sentence 10 years and 6 months imprisonment
Defender Unknow
Place of jail Xining Prison, Nanjing Road 14, Xining City, Qinhai Province
Situation in jail Unknow
Date of release 2016-05-30
独立独立独立独立中文笔会中文笔会中文笔会中文笔会 Independent Chinese PEN Centre (ICPC)
President: Tienchi Martin-Liao, Vice-presidents: Shiying Zhao & Jiang Bo
Secretary-general: Shiying Zhao, Deputy Secretary-general: Yu Zhang
Södra Jordbrovägen 19, NB, SE-137 65 Jordbro, Sweden
Tel: +46-8-50022792 Fax: +46-8-50224191 Email: [email protected]
9. Tashi Rabten
Name Tashi Rabten
Pen name Te’urang
Sex Male
Birth date 1986
Birth place Dzoege County, Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province
Resident place Dzoege County, Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province
Education Northwest Minorities University, Lanzhou City, Gansu Province
Profession Student, Tibetan writer, chief editor of Tibetan monthly Shar Dhung-Ri (Honorary
Member of ICPC)
Date of arrest 2010-04-06
Organ of arrest unknown
Cause of arrest editing the banned Shar Dungri (Eastern Snow Mountain) and authoring of a new
collection of political articles entitled Written in Blood.
Charge Inciting split of the country
Date of sentence 2011-06-02
Organ of sentence Intermediate People’s Court of Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture,
Sichuan Province
Sentence 4 years imprisonment and ? years deprivation of political rights
Defender unknown
Place of jail Aba Prison, Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province
Situation in jail unknown
Date of release 2014-04-05
独立独立独立独立中文笔会中文笔会中文笔会中文笔会 Independent Chinese PEN Centre (ICPC)
President: Tienchi Martin-Liao, Vice-presidents: Shiying Zhao & Jiang Bo
Secretary-general: Shiying Zhao, Deputy Secretary-general: Yu Zhang
Södra Jordbrovägen 19, NB, SE-137 65 Jordbro, Sweden
Tel: +46-8-50022792 Fax: +46-8-50224191 Email: [email protected]
10. Jangtse Donkho (Rongke)
Name Jangtse Donkho (Rongke)
Pen name Nyen
Sex Male
Birth date 1978
Birth place Hongyuan County, Aba Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture,
Sichuan Province
Resident place Hongyuan County, Aba Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province
Education University
Profession Clerk at the County Annals office, Tibetan poet and editor of Tibetan newsletter “I, of
the Modern Century” (member of Writers Association of Sichuan Province, Honorary
Member of ICPC)
Date of arrest 2010-06-21 (detained), 2010-07-26(arrested)
Organ of arrest Public Security Bureau of Aba Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province
Cause of arrest publishing a critical article, How Many Human Rights Do We Have, in a Tibetan
monthly Shar Dhung-Ri (Eastern Snow Mountain)
Charge Inciting subversion of state power, suspicion of inciting split of the country (arrest)
Date of sentence 2010-12-30
Organ of sentence Intermediate People’s Court of Aba Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province
Sentence 4 years imprisonment
Defender no
Place of jail Detention Center of Ma’erkang (Barkam) County, Aba Tibetan Autonomous
Prefecture, Sichuan Province
Situation in jail unknown
Date of release 2014-06-20
独立独立独立独立中文笔会中文笔会中文笔会中文笔会 Independent Chinese PEN Centre (ICPC)
President: Tienchi Martin-Liao, Vice-presidents: Shiying Zhao & Jiang Bo
Secretary-general: Shiying Zhao, Deputy Secretary-general: Yu Zhang
Södra Jordbrovägen 19, NB, SE-137 65 Jordbro, Sweden
Tel: +46-8-50022792 Fax: +46-8-50224191 Email: [email protected]
11. Buddha
Name Buddha
Sex Male
Birth date 1979
Birth place Aba County, Aba Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture,
Sichuan Province
Resident place Aba County, Aba Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture,
Sichuan Province
Education Chongqing Medicine University
Profession Medical Doctor at a village clinic, Tibetan writer and editor of Tibetan newsletter “I,
of the Modern Century” (Honorary Member of ICPC)
Date of arrest 2010-06-21 (detained), 2010-07-26(arrested)
Organ of arrest Public Security Bureau of Aba Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province
Cause of arrest publishing a critical article, Review and Reflection, in a Tibetan monthly Shar
Dhung-Ri
Charge Inciting subversion of state power, suspicion of inciting split of the country (arrest)
Date of sentence 2010-12-30
Organ of sentence Intermediate People’s Court of Aba Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province
Sentence 4 years imprisonment
Defender no
Place of jail Detention Center of Jinchuan County, Aba Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan
Province
Situation in jail unknown
Date of release 2014-06-20
独立独立独立独立中文笔会中文笔会中文笔会中文笔会 Independent Chinese PEN Centre (ICPC)
President: Tienchi Martin-Liao, Vice-presidents: Shiying Zhao & Jiang Bo
Secretary-general: Shiying Zhao, Deputy Secretary-general: Yu Zhang
Södra Jordbrovägen 19, NB, SE-137 65 Jordbro, Sweden
Tel: +46-8-50022792 Fax: +46-8-50224191 Email: [email protected]
12. Kalsang Jinpa
Name Kalsang Jinpa
Sex Male
Birth date 1977
Birth place Xiaohe County, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture,
Gansu Province
Resident place Aba County, Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous
Prefecture, Sichuan Province
Education
Profession Tibetan writer and editor of Tibetan newsletter “I, of the Modern Century” (Honorary
Member of ICPC)
Date of arrest 2010-07-19 (detained), 2010-07-26(arrested)
Organ of arrest Public Security Bureau of Aba Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province
Cause of arrest publishing a critical article, Complaints with the Blood and Life, in a Tibetan monthly
Shar Dhung-Ri
Charge Inciting subversion of state power, suspicion of inciting split of the country (arrest)
Date of sentence 2010-12-30
Organ of sentence Intermediate People’s Court of Aba Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province
Sentence 3 years imprisonment
Defender no
Place of jail Detention Center of Jinchuan County, Aba Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan
Province
Situation in jail unknown
Date of release 2013-07-18
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13. Dokru Tsultrim
Name Dokru Tsultrim
Sex Male
Birth date 1983
Birth place Guinan County, Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture,
Qinghai Province
Resident place Gomang Temple, Aba County, Aba Tibetan Autonomous
Prefecture, Sichuan Province
Education
Profession Monk of Gomang Temple, Tibetan writer and editor of Tibetan literature journal
Khawai Tsesok (Life of Snow) (Honorary Member of ICPC)
Date of arrest 2010-05-24 (detained)
Organ of arrest Public Security Bureau of Ma’erkang (Barkam) County, Aba Tibetan Autonomous
Prefecture, Sichuan Province
Cause of arrest writing and preparing to publish a book on 2010 Yushu earthquake in his home
province of Qinghai, criticizing the government’s wrongdoings
Charge Inciting split of the country
Date of sentence 2011-05-07
Organ of sentence People’s Court of Barkam County, Aba Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan
Province
Sentence 4 years and 6 months imprisonment
Defender no
Place of jail Detention Center of Barkam County, Aba Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan
Province
Situation in jail unknown
Date of release 2014-11-23
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Secretary-general: Shiying Zhao, Deputy Secretary-general: Yu Zhang
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14. Kunchok Tsephel Gopey Tsang
Name Kunchok Tsephel Gopey Tsang
Sex Male
Birth date 1970
Birth place Maqu County, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture,
Gansu Province
Resident place Maqu County, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture,
Gansu Province
Education Northwest Minorities University, Lanzhou City, Gansu Province; Central University
for Nationalities, Beijing
Profession official at Animal Husbandry Bureau of Maqu County, founder and editor of the
Tibetan language website Chomei (The Lamp) www.tibetcm.com (Honorary Member
of ICPC)
Date of arrest 2009-02-26
Organ of arrest Public Security Bureau of Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu Province
Cause of arrest publishing online articles on the crackdown in the Tibet Autonomous Region in March
2008
Charge Leaking the state security
Date of sentence 2009-11-12 (closed)
Organ of sentence Intermediate People’s Court of Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu
Province
Sentence 15 years imprisonment and ? years deprivation of political rights
Defender unknown
Place of jail Gannan Prison, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu Province
Situation in jail Unknown
Date of release 2024-02-25
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Secretary-general: Shiying Zhao, Deputy Secretary-general: Yu Zhang
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15. Kunga Tseyang
Name Kunga Tseyang
Pen name Gangnyi
Sex Male
Birth date 1989
Birth place Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province
Resident place Labrang monastery, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu Province
Education Buddhism Institute of Labrang monastery, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture,
Gansu
Profession Monk, Tibetan writer, photographer and environmentalist (Honorary Member of
ICPC)
Date of arrest 2009-03-17
Organ of arrest Public Security Bureau of Hezuo Cuty, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture,
Gansu Province
Cause of arrest publishing online articles on Tibetan culture and the crackdown in the Tibet
Autonomous Region in March 2008
Charge Inciting split of the country and Leaking the state security
Date of sentence 2009-11-14
Organ of sentence People’s Court of Hezuo City, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu
Province
Sentence 5 years imprisonment and ? years deprivation of political rights
Defender unknown
Place of jail Lanzhou Prison, Lanzhou City, Gansu Province
Situation in jail Unknown
Date of release 2014-03-16
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Secretary-general: Shiying Zhao, Deputy Secretary-general: Yu Zhang
Södra Jordbrovägen 19, NB, SE-137 65 Jordbro, Sweden
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16. Tsering WOESER
Name Tsering WOESER
Sex Female
Birth date 1966-07
Birth place Lhasa, Tibet
Resident place Beijing
Education graduated from Chengdu Southwest University for Nationalities
Profession Writer and poet
Woeser, a quarter-Han and three quarters-Tibetan, was born in Lhasa. In 1988, she graduated from Southwest
University for Nationalities in Chengdu with a degree in Chinese literature. She worked as a reporter in
Kardzé and later in Lhasa and has lived in Beijing since 2003 as a result of political problems. Woeser is
married to Wang Lixiong, a renowned author who frequently writes about Tibet.
Awards
In 2007, she was granted with the Norwegian Authors Union awards Freedom of Expression Prize; In 2007,
she was also granted with the freedom of speech medal by the Association of Tibetan Journalists; In 2009,
she was granted with the Lin Zhao Memory Award by Independent Chinese PEN Center, but can not go to
Hong Kong to participate the ceremony on 20 March 2010; In 2010, International Women's Media
Foundation granted her with the Courage in Journalism Awards; In 2011, Prince Claus Awards, theme
Breaking taboos.
Main Works
"Mémoire interdite. Témoignages sur la Révolution culturelle au Tibet", éd. Bleu de Chine, trad. Li Zhang &
Bernard Bourrit.2010
Tibet's True Heart (Selected Poems), trans. A. E. Clark , Dobbs Ferry, Ragged Banner Press 2008
Forbidden Memory - Tibet during the Cultural Revolution (杀劫), Locus Publishing, Taiwan, 2006
Notes of Tibet (西藏笔记), Hua Cheng Publishing House, Guangzhou, 2003; Also published in Taiwan as
Poems Named Tibet (名为西藏的诗), Locus Publishing, 2006
Tibet Travel Notes (西藏当代旅行记), The Tibet People's Publishing House, 2004
Crimson map (绛红色的地图), Shihying Publisher, Taiwan, 2003; China Travel & Tourism Press, 2004
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Secretary-general: Shiying Zhao, Deputy Secretary-general: Yu Zhang
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17. David TSUI (XU Zerong)
Name David TSUI (XU Zerong)
Pen name Gao Weiguo
Sex Male
Birth date 1954-01-14
Birth place Wuhan City, Hubei Province
Resident place Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province; Permanent residence in Hong Kong
Education PhD. in politic science at St Antony's College, Oxford University, 1999
Profession Professor, researcher and publisher (Member of ICPC, Honorary Member of Ghanaian
PEN Center)
Date of arrest 2000-06-24 (detained) / 2000-07-29 (arrest)
Organ of arrest National Security Bureau of Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province
Cause of arrest Writing and publishing articles on China's support to the armed unrests of Malaian
Communists in 1950-60s
Charge Illegally providing overseas with information and illegal business on publication
Date of sentence 2001-12-20, 2002-12 (appeal)
Organ of sentence Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court, High People's Court of Guangdong
Sentence 13 years imprisonment, 3 years deprivation of political rights, and fine of 50, 000CNY
Defender Lawyer HUANG Kengru
Place of jail Xicun Prison, Nanjing Road 14, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province
Situation in jail Hypertension severer and no permission for family visit until Dec. 2002, high blood
pressure.
Date of release 2011-06-23 (reduced by 2 years)
Telephone +44 -7551501615
Email [email protected]
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Secretary-general: Shiying Zhao, Deputy Secretary-general: Yu Zhang
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18. YU Jie
Name YU Jie
Sex Male
Birth date 1973-10-03
Birth place Chengdu City, Sichuan Province
Resident place US
Education Master at Beijing University
Profession Writer
Email [email protected]
Yu Jie was admitted to Peking University in 1992. In 1997 Yu received a Bachelor of Arts degree, and in
2000 earned a Master of Arts degree. He was elected of board member of the Independent Chinese PEN
Center from 2003-2009 and its vice-president from 2005-2007. In January 2012, he went to the US with his
family to seek for political asylum. After his arrive he published a statement which revealed how he was
kidnapped and tortured shortly after Liu Xiaobo was announced the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Awards
In 1998, Yu published his first book, Fire and Ice, for which he was honored with the "Top Ten Good Books"
literary award by the Xishu reading club;
In 2000, the Yu's political commentary, "Fight for Freedom", received the "Most Acute Comment of the
Year" by "Yazhou Zhoukan" (Asia Weekly);
In 2002, Yu Jie was awarded the "Certificate of Achievement" from Chan's Foundation of Journalism and
Culture, in New York, USA;
In 2006, Yu published a novel, Vanilla Mountain, for which he was awarded the "Tang Qing Christian
Literature Award" of Hong Kong.
Main Works
Fire and Ice, Economy Daily Press, China, 1998
Screams within Iron House, Chinese Industry & Commerce Syndicate Press, 1998
To Say, or not to Say, Culture and Art Publishing House, China, 1999
Awkward Times, Yue Lu Publishing House, China, 1999
Civilization Pain (Self Anthology), Bai Hua Publishing House, China, 1999
Fly the Wings, China Film Publishing House, 2000
The Road of Wandering Hero - The Mind History of the Transformation Intellectuals in our times, Taiwan
Linking Publishing Co., 2009
China's Best Actor: Wen Jiabao, New Century Publishing Co., 2010
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Secretary-general: Shiying Zhao, Deputy Secretary-general: Yu Zhang
Södra Jordbrovägen 19, NB, SE-137 65 Jordbro, Sweden
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19. LIAO Yiwu
Name LIAO Yiwu
Pen name Lao Wei
Sex Male
Birth date 1958
Birth place Yanting County, Sichuan Province
Resident place Germany
Education Studied in Wuhan University
Profession Writer and poet
Email [email protected]
Liao was born in 1958. In 1966 his father was branded a counter-revolutionary during the Chinese Cultural
Revolution. Liao's parents filed for divorce to protect the children. After High School, Liao traveled around
the country and started composing his poems and was getting published in literary magazines. He failed the
university entrance exams and began to work for a newspaper. On June 1989, after hearing about the
Tiananmen Square protests, Liao composed a long poem entitled "Massacre". He made an audiotape and
recited the poem by using Chinese ritualistic chanting and howling, invoking the spirits of the dead. He and
his friends made a movie, the sequel of Massacre, "Requiem". He was arrested in February 1990 and
sentenced four years in prison. While in prison, due to torture and abusive punishment, he suffered several
mental breakdowns and twice attempted suicide. From a fellow prisoner, an elderly monk, he learned to play
the Xiao. He then began to interview other prisoners about their lives. When he was released from prison, his
wife and their daughter had left him, and his former literary friends kept their distance. He lived for a while
as a homeless street musician in Chengdu, collecting stories. Liao processed the time in prison with his book
Testimonials. In 1998 he compiled The Fall of the Holy Temple, an anthology of underground poems from
the 1970s, mainly from Chinese dissidents. One of China's vice premiers called it a "premeditated attempt to
overthrow the government, and is supported by powerful anti-China groups." In 2001 his multi-volume
Interviews with People from the Bottom Rung of Society was published in Taiwan. The book consists of
transcribed interviews with people on the margins of Chinese society, from "hustlers to drifters, outlaws and
street performers, the officially renegade and the physically handicapped, those who deal with human waste
and with the wasting of humans, artists and shamans, crooks, even cannibals." It is currently banned in China,
like most of his works. He was arrested several times for conducting "illegal interviews" and for exposing the
dark side of the Communist Party. In 2008 he signed the Charter 08 of his friend Liu Xiaobo, although he
says of himself that he is not really interested in politics, just in his stories. In May 2008, after the Sichuan
earthquake, Liao went to the disaster region and interviewed survivors fighting corrupt officials. This
material was published as Chronicles of the Big Earthquake in Hong Kong in 2009. After having been denied
permission to leave the country many times, he wrote an open letter to Chancellor of Germany Angela
Merkel in February 2010. Later that year he was allowed to leave the country for the first time. He visited
Germany accepting invitations to literary festivals in Hamburg and Berlin as well as to an event in Cologne.
He held numerous readings and gave interviews. After entering back to China, he was denied permission to
leave the country again. Then he arrived in Germany on July 6, 2011, having left China overland by crossing
the border with Vietnam. Liao is former board member and current Honorary board member of the
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Secretary-general: Shiying Zhao, Deputy Secretary-general: Yu Zhang
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Independent Chinese PEN Center.
Awards
In 2007, he granted Freedom to Write Award by the Independent Chinese PEN Center. Authorities prevented
him from attending the award ceremony in Beijing. In 2011 he was awarded the German
Geschwister-Scholl-Preis.
Main Works
The Fall of the Holy Temple,1998
Interviews with the Lower Strata of Chinese Society, 2 volumes, Changjiang Publishing House, China,2001
(banned by the Chinese Communist Party Propaganda Department and the PRC Government's Publications
Office)
Interviews with the Lower Strata of Chinese Society, 3 volumes, Maitian Publishing House, Taiwan, 2002
The Corpse Walker,2002
China's Unjust Court Cases, Volume 1, The Laogai Research Foundation, Washington, D.C., 2003
China's Petitioner Villages, Mirror Publishing Co., 2005, USA
China's Unjust Court Cases, Volume 2, The Laogai Research Foundation, Washington, D.C., 2005
The Last of China's Landlords (two volumes), The Laogai Research Foundation, Washington D.C., 2008
Earthquake Insane Asylum, in Taiwan 2009; French edition 2010.
Forthcoming: Shepherds of the Far East, in the U.S., 2011, and its English translation God is Red scheduled
for publication by Harper Collins in the United States in August 2011
Testimonials, An expanded German translation will be published in Germany by Fischer in June 2011
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Secretary-general: Shiying Zhao, Deputy Secretary-general: Yu Zhang
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20. ZHOU Qing
Name ZHOU Qing
Sex Male
Birth date 1966
Birth place Xi’an City, Shanxi Province
Resident place Germany
Education studied at the Lu Xun Literary Institute and at Northwest
University, Xi'an
Profession Writer, journalist and editor (Member of ICPC)
Email: [email protected]
Zhou Qing was born in Xi'an, Shanxi Province, China. He studied at the Lu Xun Literary Institute and at
Northwest University, Xi'an. In 1989 he was imprisoned for two years, after taking part in the pro-democracy
demonstrations at Tiananmen Square. His sentence was extended by eight months for refusing to rehabilitate
and attempting to escape. Zhou is a journalist, editor and a researcher into Chinese folk and oral history. He
is the former director of the Xi'an Cang Xie Cultural Research Institute, and was chief editor of Folk
magazine, Economy & Trade, Shen Zhen edition, and managing editor of the newspaper Legends & Stories,
and chief editor of the magazine Oral Museum. Zhou Qing spent two years researching the murky world of
Chinese food and in 2004 China's most important reportage magazine Baogao Wenxue (Reportage Literature)
published his long article: Min Yihe Shi Wei Tian. Zhongguo Shipin Anquan Xianzhuang Diaocha ('What
Kind of God'. A Survey of the Current Safety of China's Food). In his reportage, Zhou Qing exposes a topic
that the authorities have striven to keep hidden. He interviewed food manufacturers and restaurant owners,
fish farmers, peasants, traders, doctors, and consumers. He discovered shocking practices such as the use of
contraceptive pills to accelerate fish farming, the pesticide DDT to keep pickles from going off, hormones
used to replace foodstuffs, salt that is chemically enhanced, industrial oil altered to make cooking oil. The
difficulty and danger of carrying out this work was, in the author's own words, 'More dangerous than chasing
after drug dealers!' In 2006, he was granted with the Lettre Ulysses Award. In 2009, he was granted with the
Freedom to Write Award by the Independent Chinese PEN Center. Zhou is now living in Germany as a guest
writer.
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21. JIAO Guobiao
Name JIAO Guobiao
Sex Male
Birth date 1963
Birth place Qi County, Henan Province
Resident place Beijing
Education Bachelor of Arts in Chinese in 1986 and Master of Arts in
Classic Chinese in 1989 from Henan University, PhD in Journalism from the
People's University, Beijing in 1996
Profession Writer and teacher (Member of WiPC, ICPC)
Telephone: +86-133 6658 6793
Email: [email protected]
Jiao Guobiao was formerly an associate professor at Peking University's College of Journalism and
Communications until he was dismissed. A prominent journalist at Chinese Cultural Newspaper from 1996 to
2001, he has published widely on issues of journalism in China. He explored historical and contemporary
perspectives on the Chinese media, and analyzed the impact of the Internet in China. He wrote a series of
articles on the challenges and prospects for the media in China, for eventual publication as a book. In the
spring of 2004, Jiao wrote an essay titled Denouncing the Central Propaganda Department (of CPC,
Communist Party of China). Following the appearance online of his March 2004 essay condemning the
Chinese government's Central Propaganda Department (Denouncing the Central Propaganda Department)
and his continued efforts to promote freedom of the press and human rights in China, he was suspended from
his teaching duties.
Main Works
On Dedication and Volunteerism (a collection of journalistic commentaries), Overseas Chinese Publisher,
1998
The Journalistic Careers of Cultural Celebrities (concerning history of journalism), Fujiang People’s
Publisher, 1999
Sensitivities Outside the News (a collection of journalistic commentaries), China Development Publisher,
2000
The Sorrow from Independence (a collection of journalistic commentaries), People’s Publisher of Xinjiang,
2001
Denouncing the Ministry of Central Propaganda (a collection of journalistic writings translated and
published in Japanese), Chaoshi Publisher, Tokyo, 2004
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Secretary-general: Shiying Zhao, Deputy Secretary-general: Yu Zhang
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我们注意到你们在本月已经邀请中国新闻出版总署参加伦敦书展,而这个机构长期以来封杀
2010 年诺贝尔和平奖得主刘晓波博士及大量异议作家的作品,并将带着精心挑选的 181 家出
版社和 31 名官方作家来伦敦展示被它审查过的文学成果。
为了让英国作家和读者全面了解中国文学和中国作家的处境,我们仅介绍给你们一部分在中
国遭到全面封杀甚至因作品而被监禁的作家,他们和刘晓波一样,已失去了写作自由乃至人
身自由,更希望得到英国文化协会的支持。我们希望能通过你们的支持,向英国同行和大众
介绍和朗诵他们的文学作品——小说、诗歌和散文,以及他们的获罪作品。在一个政治恐惧
的社会中,这些源自民间的文学资源非常珍贵。他们中的独立中文笔会会员和荣誉会员就有:
正在服 11 年刑的文学评论家、诗人刘晓波和他已被软禁一年半的妻子、诗人刘霞,在坐牢 9
年获释后不久前主要因一首诗歌又被判 7 年徒刑的作家朱虞夫,坐牢 10 后又被判刑 12 年的
小说家、诗人杨同彦(杨天水),正在服 10 年刑的记者、诗人师涛、正在服刑 10 年的维吾尔
小说家、诗人亚辛,正在服 5 年刑的环保工作者、作家谭作人,在狱中被折磨成植物人才获
保外就医后很快去逝的诗人、小说家张建红(力虹),坐牢 11 后于去年获释的牛津学者徐泽
荣博士,因作品遭毒打酷刑而在年初被迫出走美国的作家余杰,去年被迫流亡德国的作家、
诗人廖亦武,遭封杀暂留德国的作家周勍,在北京被长期封杀的作家焦国标,被禁止入境中
国的旅英小说家马健和旅德诗人贝岭等,特别是希望英国同行和大众听到被囚在北京家中的
藏人女作家唯色的声音,让英国读者了解为什么今天西藏正发生着空前最大规模的连续自焚
悲剧。而一些了解真相的藏区作家和学者,卓玛嘉、扎西绕登(扎西热丹)、东科、布旦、尕
让云巴、卓日次成、贡却才培、更嘎仓央等数十人被关进了监狱。仅笔会收集的个案中,在
中国因言获罪关押的作家就达 40 多人。
英国文化协会强调:邀请的是在中国写作的中国作家,让英国人了解中国文学,促进文化交
流。我们不禁要问,难道了解中国文学就应该只根据中国官方的推荐吗?难道不需要了解那
些得不到官方推荐甚至被封杀的作家及其作品吗?哈维尔当年被捷克当局关押和封杀的作品
就应该忽略吗?布罗斯基在国内遭封杀和被迫流亡后的创作就不属于苏俄文学吗?鲁西迪爵
士离开印度后就不再能促进英印文化交流吗?我们认为这观点对被封杀、被监禁、被流放的
作家极为不公。伦敦是国际笔会的发源地,关注遭受政治迫害,救助狱中作家本是英国的人
文传统。也是在这基础上我们恳请英国文化协会注意到在中国遭封杀的作家及其作品的状况。
我们还注意到你们使用了“中国文学” 这一称谓。正如官方作家代表政府一样,中国新闻出
版总署所容许的官方文学仅仅只是中国文学的极为有限的部分,主要也就是所谓 “中国特色
的社会主义文学” 而已,远不能体现中国文学的全貌。中国文学必须包括遭官方封杀的超越
官方审查之外的民间文学、异端文学、地下文学、狱中文学和流亡文学。因此,请不要认同
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