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3rd Death Anniversary of Nobel Peace Prize Winner Liu Xiaobo: "Were He to Know that Hong Kong Has Now Been Devastated to Its Present State, He Would be Utterly Heartbroken"
July 13th was the 3rd death anniversary of Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo.
Xiaowaves, founded by good friends of the late Liu, issued a statement on the day, writing that Liu’s lifelong vision was for the people of China to be free from fear and to enjoy freedom of expression without fear, just like Hongkongers. Were he to know that Hong Kong has now been devastated to its present state, he would be “utterly heartbroken”. The statement pointed out that totalitarianism and nefarious laws simply could not suppress the people’s resistance. “Be it inciting subversion of state power, or the Hong Kong National Security Law, all shall ultimately degenerate into unlawful laws and glorious offences.”
Titled “Fulfilling Xiaobo’s Unfinished Ambition Is Our Only Pathway Forward”, the statement remarked that Hong Kong was China’s only window to the free world and a trailblazer in liberalism’s defiance against communist totalitarianism. During his lifetime, Liu had many times expressed his love for Hong Kong, the Hong Kong that was China’s only “citadel for free speech”, the only city where June 4th could be commemorated publicly. But it was on the very night of June 4th this year that the fear of communism descended upon the city. “The people of Hong Kong began to howl for their freedom and future. Xiaobo had said that China needed another 300 years to become like Hong Kong. Who would have known that the Hong Kong after Xiaobo had passed would hasten its speed to ‘Mainlandise’ and communise.” Liu also could not have imagined Hong Kong losing its guarantee of free speech.
The statement mentioned that the vision Liu kept in his heart for his entire life was for the people of China to be free from fear, to enjoy freedom of expression without fear and to live truly free lives like Hongkongers. Were he to know that Hong Kong has now been devastated to its present state, “although separated by heaven and earth, Xiaobo would most certainly be just like us, he would be utterly heartbroken.”
Xiaowaves pointed out that Liu’s unfulfilled mission has now fallen upon this generation. Civil resistance has never ceased - “Xie Wenfei, who fought resolutely; Terminus2049, which protected memories; the Xiamen assembly, which was concerned with China’s future.” Hunan activist Xie Wenfei was arrested for his vocal support for Hong Kong’s anti-extradition law amendment bill movement. Terminus2049, a Beijing-based volunteer organisation that archives information and contents published on mainstream platforms and WeChat, has had many of its volunteers arrested and charged for collecting and updating news about the COVID-19 outbreak. A group of human rights lawyers and dissidents were arrested for attending a civil assembly in Xiamen. The statement also noted that these were all people and events that were labelled “illegal” in the past year, but totalitarianism and nefarious laws simply could not suppress the people’s resistance, “Be it inciting subversion of state power, or the Hong Kong National Security Law, all shall ultimately degenerate into unlawful laws and glorious offences.”
The statement wrote that Liu’s lifelong work of endurance will pass on and will require the perseverance of this generation and many more of Chinese people working altogether. “This is not only to ensure we won’t fail the expectations of Xiaobo, but also to confront and resolve the foremost issue of contemporary China. The path ahead is long and winding, but it is our only pathway forward.”
Source: Stand News #Jul13
3rd Death Anniversary of Nobel Peace Prize Winner Liu Xiaobo: "Were He to Know that Hong Kong Has Now Been Devastated to Its Present State, He Would be Utterly Heartbroken"
July 13th was the 3rd death anniversary of Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo.
Xiaowaves, founded by good friends of the late Liu, issued a statement on the day, writing that Liu’s lifelong vision was for the people of China to be free from fear and to enjoy freedom of expression without fear, just like Hongkongers. Were he to know that Hong Kong has now been devastated to its present state, he would be “utterly heartbroken”. The statement pointed out that totalitarianism and nefarious laws simply could not suppress the people’s resistance. “Be it inciting subversion of state power, or the Hong Kong National Security Law, all shall ultimately degenerate into unlawful laws and glorious offences.”
Titled “Fulfilling Xiaobo’s Unfinished Ambition Is Our Only Pathway Forward”, the statement remarked that Hong Kong was China’s only window to the free world and a trailblazer in liberalism’s defiance against communist totalitarianism. During his lifetime, Liu had many times expressed his love for Hong Kong, the Hong Kong that was China’s only “citadel for free speech”, the only city where June 4th could be commemorated publicly. But it was on the very night of June 4th this year that the fear of communism descended upon the city. “The people of Hong Kong began to howl for their freedom and future. Xiaobo had said that China needed another 300 years to become like Hong Kong. Who would have known that the Hong Kong after Xiaobo had passed would hasten its speed to ‘Mainlandise’ and communise.” Liu also could not have imagined Hong Kong losing its guarantee of free speech.
The statement mentioned that the vision Liu kept in his heart for his entire life was for the people of China to be free from fear, to enjoy freedom of expression without fear and to live truly free lives like Hongkongers. Were he to know that Hong Kong has now been devastated to its present state, “although separated by heaven and earth, Xiaobo would most certainly be just like us, he would be utterly heartbroken.”
Xiaowaves pointed out that Liu’s unfulfilled mission has now fallen upon this generation. Civil resistance has never ceased - “Xie Wenfei, who fought resolutely; Terminus2049, which protected memories; the Xiamen assembly, which was concerned with China’s future.” Hunan activist Xie Wenfei was arrested for his vocal support for Hong Kong’s anti-extradition law amendment bill movement. Terminus2049, a Beijing-based volunteer organisation that archives information and contents published on mainstream platforms and WeChat, has had many of its volunteers arrested and charged for collecting and updating news about the COVID-19 outbreak. A group of human rights lawyers and dissidents were arrested for attending a civil assembly in Xiamen. The statement also noted that these were all people and events that were labelled “illegal” in the past year, but totalitarianism and nefarious laws simply could not suppress the people’s resistance, “Be it inciting subversion of state power, or the Hong Kong National Security Law, all shall ultimately degenerate into unlawful laws and glorious offences.”
The statement wrote that Liu’s lifelong work of endurance will pass on and will require the perseverance of this generation and many more of Chinese people working altogether. “This is not only to ensure we won’t fail the expectations of Xiaobo, but also to confront and resolve the foremost issue of contemporary China. The path ahead is long and winding, but it is our only pathway forward.”
Source: Stand News #Jul13
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Japanese Universities Use Liu Xiaobo’s "Charter 08" as Chinese Teaching Material
In 2019, the Education Bureau of Hong Kong initiated a “professional consultancy service” for senior secondary curriculum Liberal Studies text books. The public raised doubts that the books were actually handed over for censorship. Recently, six publishers has published revised textbooks, in which components pertaining to political contents such as the 1989 June 4th Tiananmen incident were “river crabbed” (a euphemism for censorship in China).
On the other hand, Japanese universities have been adopting Liu Xiaobo’s written work "Charter 08" as a Chinese teaching material.
Nishinippon Shimbun reported that some universities in Japan have been using Charter 08, written by the late Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, as a Chinese teaching material. The teaching material, entitled Learning Quality Chinese through Charter 08, was published by a Japanese publisher last year on the 30th Anniversary of June 4th Tiananmen incident. The publication makes use of the full text of Charter 08 and includes a Japanese translation, grammar explanations, exercises and a brief description of the history of social movements in China.
Ken Suzuki, professor of law at Meiji University, has been using the book to teach since fall last year. He said, “Through studying constitutional law, students can learn standard Chinese syntax. Charter 08 is a critique on the present state of China, so it gives students an idea of China’s current condition too.” The report added that besides Meiji University, many universities in Kansai also used this book as a teaching material for Chinese language this year. Some of these universities initially planned to use books published in China, but changed to Charter 08 when the books could not be posted to Japan due to the epidemic.
Source: Stand News #Aug20
#Charter08 #LiuXiaobo #Meijiuniversity #Japan
#LiberalStudies #Textbook
In 2019, the Education Bureau of Hong Kong initiated a “professional consultancy service” for senior secondary curriculum Liberal Studies text books. The public raised doubts that the books were actually handed over for censorship. Recently, six publishers has published revised textbooks, in which components pertaining to political contents such as the 1989 June 4th Tiananmen incident were “river crabbed” (a euphemism for censorship in China).
On the other hand, Japanese universities have been adopting Liu Xiaobo’s written work "Charter 08" as a Chinese teaching material.
Nishinippon Shimbun reported that some universities in Japan have been using Charter 08, written by the late Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, as a Chinese teaching material. The teaching material, entitled Learning Quality Chinese through Charter 08, was published by a Japanese publisher last year on the 30th Anniversary of June 4th Tiananmen incident. The publication makes use of the full text of Charter 08 and includes a Japanese translation, grammar explanations, exercises and a brief description of the history of social movements in China.
Ken Suzuki, professor of law at Meiji University, has been using the book to teach since fall last year. He said, “Through studying constitutional law, students can learn standard Chinese syntax. Charter 08 is a critique on the present state of China, so it gives students an idea of China’s current condition too.” The report added that besides Meiji University, many universities in Kansai also used this book as a teaching material for Chinese language this year. Some of these universities initially planned to use books published in China, but changed to Charter 08 when the books could not be posted to Japan due to the epidemic.
Source: Stand News #Aug20
#Charter08 #LiuXiaobo #Meijiuniversity #Japan
#LiberalStudies #Textbook
#Solidarity #HongKongProtest
Detained Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Activist Receives a Marriage Proposal from Activist Boyfriend
The vice-chairwoman of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, Tonyee Chow Hang-tung, who is a barrister, was refused bail and was remanded.
She was accused of "inciting others to participate in an unapproved assembly" for promoting the June 4th Tiananmen Massacre commemorative event in 2021.
Chow's partner Ye Du, a Chinese human rights activist and writer, sent his marriage proposal in a letter.
He expressed his feelings of longing. He saying the darkest time before the dawn can be more remarkable in their hearts. Hw also mentioned that this big wave of time disrupted their original imagination to the future, bringing an expected development.
The proposal letter by Ye Du was published in MingPao today.
The letter was written on July 13th, the anniversary of the death of Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo. Ye Du proposed marriage by letter to Tonyee, mentioning, "You said you want to have a romantic proposal. There always has a strange way to propose. But what is compatible with you being in a small jail and me being in a large jail... What is compatible with having a mutual memory on a special date, the anniversary of the death of Liu Xiaobo? What is compatible and more remarkable to the romantic moment under this darkness before the dawn? Tung, would you marry me?"
Ye Du indicated, "For my soul singing songs as a testimony, for those friends sending you this letter as a testimony, for the prison censors of this letter as a testimony, for whoever reading this letter and caring your situation as a testimony", proposing marriage to Tonyee. "Since now, you are the wind and snow, Spring and Summer. You are the world. Only hope to hold your hands for a lifetime".
Source: Stand News #Jul25
https://bit.ly/3zMwOlz
#TonyeeChow #ChowHangTung #YeDu #MarriageProposal #LiuXiaobo #June4th
Detained Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Activist Receives a Marriage Proposal from Activist Boyfriend
The vice-chairwoman of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, Tonyee Chow Hang-tung, who is a barrister, was refused bail and was remanded.
She was accused of "inciting others to participate in an unapproved assembly" for promoting the June 4th Tiananmen Massacre commemorative event in 2021.
Chow's partner Ye Du, a Chinese human rights activist and writer, sent his marriage proposal in a letter.
He expressed his feelings of longing. He saying the darkest time before the dawn can be more remarkable in their hearts. Hw also mentioned that this big wave of time disrupted their original imagination to the future, bringing an expected development.
The proposal letter by Ye Du was published in MingPao today.
The letter was written on July 13th, the anniversary of the death of Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo. Ye Du proposed marriage by letter to Tonyee, mentioning, "You said you want to have a romantic proposal. There always has a strange way to propose. But what is compatible with you being in a small jail and me being in a large jail... What is compatible with having a mutual memory on a special date, the anniversary of the death of Liu Xiaobo? What is compatible and more remarkable to the romantic moment under this darkness before the dawn? Tung, would you marry me?"
Ye Du indicated, "For my soul singing songs as a testimony, for those friends sending you this letter as a testimony, for the prison censors of this letter as a testimony, for whoever reading this letter and caring your situation as a testimony", proposing marriage to Tonyee. "Since now, you are the wind and snow, Spring and Summer. You are the world. Only hope to hold your hands for a lifetime".
Source: Stand News #Jul25
https://bit.ly/3zMwOlz
#TonyeeChow #ChowHangTung #YeDu #MarriageProposal #LiuXiaobo #June4th
#PoliticalOppression
Pro-democracy retail shop decides to exit Hong Kong after months of harassment and nuisance by Pro-Beijing Force
Pro-democeacy retail chain, #CHICKEEDUCK, announced on November 18, 2021 that it will close down all retail shops in Hong Kong in June/July 2022.
Owner of the brand, #HerbertChow said that he is considering to turn one of the shops in Tin Hau into a museum to display artworks like statue of noble prize winner and Chinese dissident #LiuXiaobo and the Hong Kong's Lady Liberty statue.
Chow told reporters that his company suffered too many oppressions in the past 18 months. The NationalSecurityPolice has once stopped his production factory in China from shipping out orders.
Some staff member of the retail chain have been followed and tracked.
“This decision was not made for me, this decision was made for the company’s staff… considering the daily torture they endured,” said Chow.
The shop received hundreds of nuisance calls per month during peak hours, he added.
“It’s not related to my personal safety,” Chow said. “I took this step not because I was worried that I might get arrested, I never thought that I had violated the law.”
Chow said that he “could not stand injustice," reiterating that he can stop getting involved in other areas, “but when it comes to Hong Kong, our home, how can [I] shut up?”
Source: Stand News; #Nov18 https://thestandnews.page.link/GSZ8x2cUoJNjgFcBA
#YellowShop
Pro-democracy retail shop decides to exit Hong Kong after months of harassment and nuisance by Pro-Beijing Force
Pro-democeacy retail chain, #CHICKEEDUCK, announced on November 18, 2021 that it will close down all retail shops in Hong Kong in June/July 2022.
Owner of the brand, #HerbertChow said that he is considering to turn one of the shops in Tin Hau into a museum to display artworks like statue of noble prize winner and Chinese dissident #LiuXiaobo and the Hong Kong's Lady Liberty statue.
Chow told reporters that his company suffered too many oppressions in the past 18 months. The NationalSecurityPolice has once stopped his production factory in China from shipping out orders.
Some staff member of the retail chain have been followed and tracked.
“This decision was not made for me, this decision was made for the company’s staff… considering the daily torture they endured,” said Chow.
The shop received hundreds of nuisance calls per month during peak hours, he added.
“It’s not related to my personal safety,” Chow said. “I took this step not because I was worried that I might get arrested, I never thought that I had violated the law.”
Chow said that he “could not stand injustice," reiterating that he can stop getting involved in other areas, “but when it comes to Hong Kong, our home, how can [I] shut up?”
Source: Stand News; #Nov18 https://thestandnews.page.link/GSZ8x2cUoJNjgFcBA
#YellowShop
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