From EastSouthWestNorth blog: In the following, you will find the full translation of Li Ao’s speech at Beijing University. I was working off an imperfect transcription (see Xinzhoubao; in Chinese) that contained some things that were obvious errors. Therefore, this translation contains some guesses by me as to what was really said. There are other […]
From The Taipei Times: Writer, TV commentator, political gadfly and independent Legislator Li Ao (ÊùéÊïñ) claimed yesterday that today’s China is in its halcyon days that have not been seen since the Han (206 BC-AD 220) and Tang dynasties (AD 618-907). Li, in his second speech in China to Tsinghua University faculty and students, lauded […]
From Reuters, via The Star: Prolific and controversial Taiwan author Li Ao riled China on Wednesday by giving millions of Internet surfers and television viewers a taste of the self-ruled island’s freewheeling democracy. Li championed freedom of speech and took repeated swipes at the Communist Party in a no-holds-barred question-and-answer session at Peking University televised […]
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