Pls pls read this powerful, insightful and moving essay by Prof. Xu Zhangrun that's masterfully translated by Geremie Barmé of @chinaheritage Xu forsaw the public sentiment that was building up and erupted following the death of Dr. Li Wenliang http://www.chinafile.com/reporting-opinion/viewpoint/viral-alarm-when-fury-overcomes-fear … Excerpts:
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It is herein that we play a role. That’s right, we, We the People, for how can we let ourselves “survive no better than swine; fawn upon the power-holders like curs; and live in vile filth like maggots”?!
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As I write these words I reflect on my own situation which also dramatically changed in 2018. Writing as I do herein, I can now all too easily predict that I will be subjected to new punishments; indeed, this may well even be the last piece I write. But that is not for me to say.
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Confronted by this Great Virus,as all of us are right now,I feel as though a vast chasm has opened up before us all &I feel compelled to speak out yet again.There is no refuge from this viral reality and I cannot remain silent. To act in any other way would be to betray my nature
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In the end,it is about Freedom-that Transcendent Quality;well-spring &fulcrum of conscious action;that secular value proven to be the most divine aspiration of humankind;that innate sensibility that truly makes us human;that ineffable “suchness” that Chinese share with all others
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Prof. Xu's 2018 essay ‘Imminent Fears, Immediate Hopes’ 我們當下的恐懼與期待, written after China changed its constitution to allow lifetime presidency, was also translated by Geremie Barméhttp://chinaheritage.net/journal/imminent-fears-immediate-hopes-a-beijing-jeremiad/ …
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