{"id":37221,"date":"2009-04-11T21:47:04","date_gmt":"2009-04-12T04:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=37221"},"modified":"2009-04-12T22:50:31","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T05:50:31","slug":"cui-weiping-%e5%b4%94%e5%8d%ab%e5%b9%b3-self-initiated-and-idealistic-thinking-and-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2009\/04\/cui-weiping-%e5%b4%94%e5%8d%ab%e5%b9%b3-self-initiated-and-idealistic-thinking-and-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Cui Weiping (\u5d14\u536b\u5e73)\uff1a Self-initiated and Idealistic Thinking and Action"},"content":{"rendered":"
On March 28, Chengdu-based environmentalist, writer and former editor of Literati magazine (\u6587\u5316\u4eba) magazine Tan Zuoren (\u8c2d\u4f5c\u4eba) was detained on allegations of subversion of state power. <\/a> <\/p>\n Tan’s crime? The following is from a Reuters report:<\/p>\n In town after town in Sichuan province, schools collapsed during the May 12, 2008 earthquake, in some cases as residential buildings around them stayed standing. Over 80,000 people were killed in the earthquake, but the government has never released the number of children who died.<\/p>\n Tan Zuoren wrote a proposal this year, called \u201c5.12 Student Archive\u201d, to ask web users and people who lost their children in the quake to help set up a detailed database of the victims.<\/p>\n He asked volunteers in the project to also compile any evidence of shoddy construction at the schools.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n On April 11, Cui Weiping (\u5d14\u536b\u5e73), professor at the Beijing Film Academy, published a post on her Sina blog<\/strong><\/a>, entitled “Self-initiated and Idealistic Thinking and Action – dedicated to Mr. Tan Zuoren,” excerpts translated by CDT (thanks to Dimon Liu for the title translation) :<\/p>\n … My thoughts are with Mr. Tan Zuoren in Sichuan. The veteran environmental activist has taken part in public interest events with local citizens many times. For that he has been \u201crepeatedly warned” by relevant departments (Xiao Xuehui\u2019s article has details). After the earthquake, he rushed to the worst-hit areas with friends as soon as possible, to provide relief materials to the refugees and to start investigating the collapsed school buildings and the number of students killed. His essay written 100 days after the tremor had this line \u2013 \u201cI\u2019d like to devote my sinful being to you, innocent children taken away by the 5.12 earthquake.\u201d It was such a sincere statement and a willingness to shoulder responsibility. People like him would have been called \u201crighteous men\u201d in ancient China and his act a \u201crighteous act.\u201d But this great \u201crighteous man\u201d was escorted away by police on March 28 and has not returned ever since. \u201cThe crime of ‘dianfu’, do you believe it?\u201d Xiao Xuehui asked in her article. Xiao herself is a remarkable woman in Sichuan. It\u2019s so ingenious of her to invent such a new term as \u201cdianfu zui,\u201d a homonym for \u201cthe crime of subversion\u201d which actually means \u201cthe crime of advance payment.\u201d <\/p>\n I don\u2019t believe it, absolutely not. I don\u2019t believe this father of two would have done anything to harm his compatriots and our society! Anyone can reach this conclusion from reading Tan\u2019s essay written 100 days after the quake. I haven\u2019t met Mr. Tan personally, but just before his detention I saw this life-hardened man in Ai Xiaoming\u2019s latest documentary. In it Tan talked explicitly about the dangers he was facing. He mentioned the arrest of Huang Qi, who ran 64tianwang.com, for his efforts to help parents who lost their children in the quake defend their rights. He also mentioned Teacher Liu Shaokun from Guanghan Middle School, who was arrested by police when he told a group of intellectuals in Chengdu about what happened to teachers at the Beichuan Middle School. And then Tan said: \u201cPeople say good things won\u2019t happen more than three times. I\u2019d like to be the third person (to be arrested).\u201d The following words, which he said in front of Ai Xiaoming\u2019s camera, make people feel a deep respect for him:<\/p>\n I have had enough mental preparation<\/a><\/p>\n In the face of such a catastrophe of the world<\/p>\n If no one would speak out<\/p>\n And everybody behaves like a turtle with its head retracted into the shell<\/p>\n Then I think I\u2019d better not meet people in the next three to five years<\/p>\n I will disappear from this world<\/p>\n I\u2019ll be living in another society<\/p>\n When some time in the future<\/p>\n People have reflected deeply on this incident<\/p>\n And learn how to live as real human beings<\/p>\n Especially how to live as a Chinese<\/p>\n How to live as a Chinese against all odds <\/p>\n How come<\/p>\n So many people died in the Beichuan earthquake<\/p>\n To be sentenced for this<\/p>\n To give away several years of my life <\/p>\n Such a price<\/p>\n I feel, is worth it<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Such people are the backbone of our nation, the salt and calcium of our nation, the foundation of the reconstruction of our nation\u2019s morals and the starting point of our nation\u2019s spiritual rebuilding. To incarcerate such people is tantamount to confining the conscience of our nation!<\/p>\n April 9, 2009 <\/p><\/blockquote>\n 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On March 28, Chengdu-based environmentalist, writer and former editor of Literati magazine (\u6587\u5316\u4eba) magazine Tan Zuoren (\u8c2d\u4f5c\u4eba) was detained on allegations of subversion of state power. Tan’s crime? The following is from a Reuters report: In town after town in Sichuan province, schools collapsed during the May 12, 2008 earthquake, in some cases as residential […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[99,34,100,5,4202],"tags":[3072,4322,1684,6872,7878],"class_list":["post-37221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cdt-highlights","category-human-rights","category-politics","category-society","category-translation","tag-ai-xiaoming","tag-cui-weiping","tag-huang-qi","tag-school-collapse","tag-tan-zuoren","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\n
\n* Online interview with Tan Zuoren<\/a> at Vimeo.com, about the Sichuan earthquake
\n* \u201cOur Land is Under Seige<\/a>,\u201d Tan Zuoren, Human Rights in China, 2006<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"