{"id":215546,"date":"2019-10-04T12:23:59","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T19:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=215546"},"modified":"2019-10-07T23:13:49","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T06:13:49","slug":"lennon-and-the-leninists-pragues-lennon-wall-repurposed-to-celebrate-prc-founding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2019\/10\/lennon-and-the-leninists-pragues-lennon-wall-repurposed-to-celebrate-prc-founding\/","title":{"rendered":"Lennon and the Leninists: Prague\u2019s Lennon Wall Repurposed to Celebrate PRC Founding"},"content":{"rendered":"

This article was originally published by Project Sinopsis<\/a> and has been reposted with permission.<\/p>\n

Lennon and the Leninists: Prague\u2019s Lennon Wall repurposed to celebrate the founding of the PRC<\/h2>\n

The battle for Lennon walls spreads from Hong Kong to the original in Prague.<\/p>\n

by Filip Jirou\u0161<\/span><\/p>\n

The Lennon Wall has become a symbol of democracy and freedom not only in the Czech Republic, where it originated, but also in Hong Kong, where replicas have been created during the 2019 protests. On the eve of the PRC\u2019s National Day (\u56fd\u5e86\u8282) a group of Chinese \u201cpatriots\u201d took over and repainted slogans calling for free Hong Kong turned into graffiti celebrating the 70 years since the CCP won the civil war.<\/p>\n

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Lennon Wall, September 29 or 30. Photo:<\/em>\u00a0\u6377\u514b\u5feb\u8baf<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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A worldwide symbol of freedom and democracy<\/h2>\n

The history of a protest wall on Prague\u2019s Kampa Island goes back to the 1960s, but it only became famous after John Lennon died in 1980. The brick wall (which currently belongs to the Order of Malta) immediately filled with texts and pictures commemorating the famous British singer, whose ballads about love and peace managed to climb over the Iron Curtain. The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia tried several times to paint the wall over, but it was unable to stop the increasinly political art from appearing.<\/p>\n

In 2014 the concept of a Lennon wall became international as the Umbrella Movement made it its own using colorful Post-it notes to create a mosaic full of complaints and political statements.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s protests saw the Hong Kong \u201cwall\u201d rebuilt, but on top of that, dozens of others started appearing, even\u00a0in areas that many locals believed to be \u201cpro-Beijing\u201d<\/a>. There have been shouting matches and violence at the Lennon walls, including a\u00a0knife attack<\/a>. Largely immigrants from Mainland China have been actively taking the walls down, sometimes even\u00a0under police protection<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Sinopsis.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Lennon Wall has become a symbol of this year\u2019s Hong Kong protests (the artist Badiucao even turned it into a flag now often seen in\u00a0Hong Kong streets<\/a>) and its Hong Kong style spread to other countries \u2014 e.g.\u00a0New Zealand<\/a>,\u00a0Canada<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0Australia<\/a>. The colorful politically-loaded mosaics mostly sprout on university campuses with large number of students from Hong Kong and Mainland China. The walls are often sites of quite violent clashes, especially in\u00a0Australia<\/a>, and\u00a0pro-Beijing groups<\/a>\u00a0regularly vandalize them. The PRC government has not refrained from showing support for the \u201cpatriotic behavior<\/a>\u201d of those attacking pro-Hong Kong protesters, as the Consulate-General in Brisbane explicitly described it.<\/p>\n

Yet 30 years ago, it was the Chinese students at universities abroad who\u00a0organized pro-democratic protests<\/a>\u00a0in 1989 and promoted the idea that only political freedoms can guarantee true social justice. However, the CCP has learned from its \u201cmistakes.\u201d As the Australian sinologist\u00a0Gerry Groot<\/a>\u00a0puts it:<\/p>\n

In the thirty years since Tian\u2019anmen, many once-radical CCP critics abroad have made their peace with the Party and are very sympathetic to Xi\u2019s vision of national rejuvenation. Moreover, the developing trade war with the United States under President Trump plays well to common Chinese notions of national victimhood and humiliation at the hands of foreign powers. The so-called \u201cHundred years of national humiliation\u201d (\u767e\u5e74\u56fd\u803b) narrative, long popular among some intellectuals, was developed into a full-blown \u201cpatriotic education campaign\u201d (\u7231\u56fd\u4e3b\u4e49\u6559\u80b2\u8fd0\u52a8) in the wake of Tian\u2019anmen and is now the CCP\u2019s longest running and arguably most successful political campaign ever. This campaign helps account for CCP support amongst the Chinese Diaspora(s)\u2026 The great wave of Chinese students who went abroad from the 1990s onwards have also by and large been successfully \u2018inoculated\u2019 against liberal values.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As part of the campaign, Chinese student associations have come under control of embassies and consulates, and these groups are now under scrutiny, from\u00a0Australia<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0Germany<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Canada<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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October 1. Photo: Sinopsis<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Global censorship for world peace<\/h2>\n

The Hong Kong protests have also left their mark on the original Prague Lennon Wall. Throughout the summer, posts and grafitti in English and Cantonese or Chinese have been popping up, calling for solidarity with Hong Kong and urging the Hong Kong government to comply with the\u00a0Five Appeals<\/a>. For several months \u2014 at least according to available information \u2014 the Lennon Wall has been left without any notice by the Chinese \u201cpatriots.\u201d Now that has changed.<\/p>\n

According to a local tour guide, an unknown group made two Hong Kong-style Post-it \u201cwalls\u201d on the original one in Prague on September 29. Hours later, another group took down the Post-it notes with Hong Kong references and painted a big red-and-gold number 70 that had the PRC flag inside the big zero. Next to the 70, \u201cCHINA\u201d was spray-painted in big letters. All of this happened as the group\u00a0filmed<\/a>\u00a0and shouted \u201cWe love China.\u201d<\/p>\n

The creator of the \u201cartwork\u201d is Liao Xin \u5ed6\u946b, a designer and\u00a0owner<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0Beijing Liao Xin Culture and Art Co., Ltd.\u00a0(\u5317\u4eac\u5ed6\u946b\u6587\u5316\u827a\u672f\u6709\u9650\u516c\u53f8\u521b\u59cb\u4eba)<\/a>\u00a0who posted the feat on\u00a0Weibo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A post on the WeChat account \u201cCzech Breaking News\u201d (\u6377\u514b\u5feb\u8baf) titled \u201cI cannot be separated from my ancestral land even for a moment!<\/a>\u201d interviewed Liao, who explained his motivations:<\/p>\n

As working in art design, I want to create beautiful things for the world, not trash. The Lennon Wall is a wall where art lovers express their feelings and that brings true esthetic beauty to the city. It is not a place for political noise. We support freedom of expression and artistic freedom, but we will not allow any person or organization to damage world peace using so-called art, or any opinions that damage world peace or so-called \u201cartistic freedom\u201d to become tools of political deception. The main goal of our graffiti is to wish our ancestral country a happy 70th birthday from Prague, on behalf of the Chinese diaspora. We also hope that through this piece of art we will show the world that China loves peace and that overseas Chinese are of one mind.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A Czech-based blogger offers another account of the event (\u201cThe ancestral land celebrates its 70th anniversary; in the Czech Republic, we give it a shout-out<\/a>\u201d [\u6253call<\/a>]), described as organized by a group of local ethnic Chinese, in addition to Liao. The author, who having \u201cgrown up in Prague\u201d is \u201cno less a patriot than anyone else,\u201d describes how after the \u201cartwork\u201d was done, a group of Czech bystanders applauded and Chinese tourists started streaming in. But soon after this, a group of \u201cHong Kong separatists\u201d recklesslesly wrote over Liao\u2019s piece using words that \u201c[call for] throwing Hong Kong into chaos,\u201d which has shaken the feelings of local Chinese diaspora: \u201cBoth local overseas Chinese and [Chinese] student organizations stated that they would get rid of the poison as soon as possible, and so that very night they went to buy a spray can and painted over the signs.\u201d The Chinese did also get into conflict with \u201clocal anti-Chinese elements\u201d and so decided to hold a vigil at the wall waiting for the arrival of another group to paint the wall with even more words and symbols.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Sinopsis.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By \u201cpoison\u201d they probably mean the \u201cFREE HK\u201d that was painted several times over the number 70 and turned \u201cCHINA\u201d to \u201cANTI-CHINAZI.\u201d\u00a0Chinazi<\/em>\u00a0has now become a popular term (more about the word in a\u00a0Language Log post by Victor Mair<\/a>) to refer to the PRC in the Hong Kong protest movement. \u201cFREE HK\u201d was in turn painted over with red spray-paint, while \u201cZI\u201d was turned into a star. More posts saying \u201cCHINA\u201d appeared on the wall on October 1. But, like the other ones, they look more like an attempt to suppress references to Hong Kong than a true celebration of an anniversary of the foundation of a superpower.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Sinopsis.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The references to Hong Kong have, however, continued to appear on the wall, while news of the patriotic artwork spread on social media. The incident was described in Czech on\u00a0Sinopsis<\/a>, in Czech and English by the author on\u00a0Twitter<\/a>, and became a topic of discussion on\u00a0LIHKG (\u8fde\u767b)<\/a>, a forum popular among Hong Kong protesters. Comments there overwhelmingly deplore the \u201cpatriotic\u201d graffiti, and even in Mainland China some social-media users have found the act inappropriate, as seen in\u00a0China Digital Times<\/a>\u00a0Chinese-language coverage.<\/p>\n

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\u7231\u5927\u4e8e\u6068\uff0c\u8bda\u91cd\u4e8e\u4f2a \u2014\u00a0a free translation of V\u00e1clav Havel\u2019s motto \u201cTruth and love must prevail over lies and hatred\u201d (Pravda a l\u00e1ska mus\u00ed zv\u00edt\u011bzit nad l\u017e\u00ed a nen\u00e1vist\u00ed) The Wall on October 3. Photo: Filip Jirou\u0161.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jichang Lulu contributed research. Thanks to Alex Joske.<\/em><\/p>\n

Czech version: \u201cPra\u017esk\u00e1 Lennonova ze\u010f slav\u00ed 70. v\u00fdro\u010d\u00ed zalo\u017een\u00ed \u010cLR<\/a>,\u201d October 2. Also published on\u00a0Hl\u00eddac\u00ed pes<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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