The Washington Post reports <\/a>on the Nobel Prize award ceremony, in which Liu Xiaobo was represented by an empty chair:<\/p>\n
\nAt the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo on Friday, jailed Chinese dissident and intellectual Liu Xiaobo was nowhere to be seen.<\/p>\nYet his campaign to bring individual freedoms and democracy to China was recognized at a ceremony made more visible, in many ways, by Beijing’s efforts to suppress it.<\/p>\n“We regret that the laureate is not present. He is in isolation in a prison in northeastern China,” Nobel committee chairman Torbjorn Jagland said during the ceremony at Oslo’s stately, modernist City Hall. “… This fact alone shows that the award was necessary and appropriate.”<\/p>\nThe audience of well over 1,000 dignitaries, diplomats and officials responded with sustained applause and a standing ovation. An oversize portrait of Liu, 54, had been hung on the stage. 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\nAt the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo on Friday, jailed Chinese dissident and intellectual Liu Xiaobo was nowhere to be seen.<\/p>\n
Yet his campaign to bring individual freedoms and democracy to China was recognized at a ceremony made more visible, in many ways, by Beijing’s efforts to suppress it.<\/p>\n
“We regret that the laureate is not present. He is in isolation in a prison in northeastern China,” Nobel committee chairman Torbjorn Jagland said during the ceremony at Oslo’s stately, modernist City Hall. “… This fact alone shows that the award was necessary and appropriate.”<\/p>\n
The audience of well over 1,000 dignitaries, diplomats and officials responded with sustained applause and a standing ovation. An oversize portrait of Liu, 54, had been hung on the stage. His eyes, behind his trademark spectacles, appeared to take in the proceedings. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
And on his blog<\/a>, Evan Osnos reports from Beijing, where there was little public mention of the ceremony:<\/p>\n
\nAt 1 P.M. in Oslo\u20148 P.M. in Beijing\u2014China did not watch the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony. The event didn\u2019t appear on Chinese television, and, in scattered homes and hotels that receive foreign networks, many screens went dark at the mention of the prize and its winner, Liu Xiaobo, who is serving eleven years in prison for \u201cinciting subversion of state power.\u201d<\/p>\nThe Nobel Web site was blocked, but still visible through a proxy server, offering a view of the empty blue chair on stage, a reminder that not only was Liu prevented from attending, but so were his relatives, friends, and lawyers\u2014the first time that has happened since 1935, when Hitler prevented anyone from Germany from receiving the prize on behalf of Carl von Ossietzky, who was in a guarded hospital bed after having been in a concentration camp.<\/p>\nBut most Chinese don\u2019t have proxy servers. If they\u2019d had a chance to tune in, they might have heard the unflattering comparison between China, Burma, Iran, and the Soviet Union. They would have heard Thorbj\u00f8rn Jagland, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, quote Liu\u2019s own words, that political reforms should \u201cbe gradual, peaceful, orderly and controlled.\u201d And they would have seen a standing ovation for the closing exhortation: \u201cWe congratulate Liu Xiaobo on the Nobel Peace Prize for 2010. His views will in the long run strengthen China. We extend to him and to China our very best wishes for the years ahead.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\nRead more about Liu Xiaobo<\/a> and the Nobel Peace Prize<\/a> via CDT. 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\nAt 1 P.M. in Oslo\u20148 P.M. in Beijing\u2014China did not watch the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony. The event didn\u2019t appear on Chinese television, and, in scattered homes and hotels that receive foreign networks, many screens went dark at the mention of the prize and its winner, Liu Xiaobo, who is serving eleven years in prison for \u201cinciting subversion of state power.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Nobel Web site was blocked, but still visible through a proxy server, offering a view of the empty blue chair on stage, a reminder that not only was Liu prevented from attending, but so were his relatives, friends, and lawyers\u2014the first time that has happened since 1935, when Hitler prevented anyone from Germany from receiving the prize on behalf of Carl von Ossietzky, who was in a guarded hospital bed after having been in a concentration camp.<\/p>\n
But most Chinese don\u2019t have proxy servers. If they\u2019d had a chance to tune in, they might have heard the unflattering comparison between China, Burma, Iran, and the Soviet Union. They would have heard Thorbj\u00f8rn Jagland, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, quote Liu\u2019s own words, that political reforms should \u201cbe gradual, peaceful, orderly and controlled.\u201d And they would have seen a standing ovation for the closing exhortation: \u201cWe congratulate Liu Xiaobo on the Nobel Peace Prize for 2010. His views will in the long run strengthen China. We extend to him and to China our very best wishes for the years ahead.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Read more about Liu Xiaobo<\/a> and the Nobel Peace Prize<\/a> via CDT. The Nobel website<\/a>, which streamed the ceremony, is posting messages sent to laureates from around the world, many of which are in Chinese sent to Liu.<\/p>\n
Update: Watch actress Liv Ullmann read Liu’s words at the award ceremony earlier today:\n<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\nRead also the speech delivered today by Thorbj\u00f8rn Jagland<\/a>, Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee.<\/p>\nSee also:\n– “At Peace Prize Ceremony, Winner\u2019s Chair Stays Empty<\/a>” from the New York Times\n– “He of the three-character name<\/a>” by Al Jazeera’s Melissa Chan\n– “China airbrushing Nobel peace prize from internet. Even ’empty chair’ isn’t safe<\/a>.” from the Christian Science Monitor\n– “China\u2019s Tirades Are Partly Aimed at Home Audience<\/a>” from the New York Times.\n– “Liu Xiaobo and 3 Noble Nobel Winners<\/a>” by Jeffrey Wasserstrom in the Huffington Post, which puts today’s ceremony in a historic perspective.\n– “As Nobel peace prize is given to Liu Xiaobo, what will its effect be?<\/a>” from the Guardian, a round table discussion<\/p>\nMeanwhile, in the Netherlands, a man traveled to the Chinese embassy to deliver flowers to the Ambassador to congratulate him and his country on the Nobel and filmed their subsequent conversation:\n<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Post reports on the Nobel Prize award ceremony, in which Liu Xiaobo was represented by an empty chair: At the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo on Friday, jailed Chinese dissident and intellectual Liu Xiaobo was nowhere to be seen. 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Read also the speech delivered today by Thorbj\u00f8rn Jagland<\/a>, Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee.<\/p>\n
See also:\n– “At Peace Prize Ceremony, Winner\u2019s Chair Stays Empty<\/a>” from the New York Times\n– “He of the three-character name<\/a>” by Al Jazeera’s Melissa Chan\n– “China airbrushing Nobel peace prize from internet. Even ’empty chair’ isn’t safe<\/a>.” from the Christian Science Monitor\n– “China\u2019s Tirades Are Partly Aimed at Home Audience<\/a>” from the New York Times.\n– “Liu Xiaobo and 3 Noble Nobel Winners<\/a>” by Jeffrey Wasserstrom in the Huffington Post, which puts today’s ceremony in a historic perspective.\n– “As Nobel peace prize is given to Liu Xiaobo, what will its effect be?<\/a>” from the Guardian, a round table discussion<\/p>\n
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