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发帖数: 9308 | 1 Censorship is a must, says China's Nobel winner
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/dec/07/mo-yan-censorship-n
This year's Nobel Prize in literature winner, Mo Yan, who has been
criticised for his membership in China's Communist Party and reluctance to
speak out against the country's government, has defended censorship as
something as necessary as airport security checks.
He also suggested he won't join an appeal calling for the release of the
jailed 2010 Peace Prize laureate, Liu Xiaobo, a fellow writer and compatriot.
Mo has been criticised by human rights activists for not being a more
outspoken defender of freedom of speech and for supporting the Communist
Party-backed writers' association, of which he is vice president.
His comments on Thursday, made during a news conference in Stockholm, appear
unlikely to soften his critics' views toward him.
Awarding him the literature prize has also brought criticism from previous
winners. Herta Mueller, the 2009 literature laureate, called the jury's
choice of Mo a "catastrophe" in an interview with the Swedish daily Dagens
Nyheter last month. She also accused Mo of protecting the Asian country's
censorship laws.
China's rulers forbid opposition parties and maintain strict control over
all media.
Mo said he doesn't feel that censorship should stand in the way of truth but
that any defamation, or rumours, "should be censored."
"But I also hope that censorship, per se, should have the highest principle,
" he said in comments translated by an interpreter from Chinese into English.
Mo is spending several days in Stockholm before receiving his prestigious
prize in an awards ceremony next Monday.
He won the Nobel for his sprawling tales of life in rural China. In its
citation, the jury said Mo "with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales,
history and the contemporary."
In addressing the sensitive issue of censorship in China, Mo likened it to
the thorough security procedures he was subjected to as he traveled to
Stockholm.
"When I was taking my flight, going through the customs ... they also wanted
to check me even taking off my belt and shoes," he said. "But I think these
checks are necessary."
Mo also dodged questions about Liu Xiaobo, the jailed Peace Prize winner.
Liu was sentenced to 11 years in prison in 2009 for co-authoring a bold call
for ending China's single-party rule and enacting democratic reforms.
China's reception of the two Nobel laureates has been worlds apart.
While it rejected the honour bestowed on Liu, calling it a desecration of
the Nobel tradition, it welcomed Mo's win with open arms, saying it
reflected "the prosperity and progress of Chinese literature, as well as the
increasing influence of China."
Although Mo has previously said he hopes Liu will be freed soon, he refused
to elaborate more on the case.
"On the same evening of my winning the prize, I already expressed my opinion
, and you can get online to make a search," he said, telling the crowd that
he hoped they wouldn't press him on the subject of Liu.
Some, however, have interpreted Mo's October comments as if he hoped the
release of Liu would make the jailed activist see sense and embrace the
Communist Party line.
Earlier this week, an appeal signed by 134 Nobel laureates, from Peace Prize
winners such as South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu to Taiwanese-American
chemist Yuan T Lee, called the detention of Liu and his wife a violation of
international law and urged their immediate release.
But Mo suggested he had no plans of adding his name to that petition. "I
have always been independent. I like it that way. When someone forces me to
do something I don't do it," he said, adding that has been in his stance in
the past decade.
Mo is to receive his Nobel prize along with the winners in medicine, physics
, chemistry and economics.
The Nobel Peace Prize is handed out in a separate ceremony in Oslo on the
same day. | m**********n
发帖数: 27535 | 2 Taiwanese-American chemist Yuan T Lee | K*****2
发帖数: 9308 | 3 绿营的人
【在 m**********n 的大作中提到】
: Taiwanese-American chemist Yuan T Lee
| I******a
发帖数: 3812 | 4 莫言这话够实在， 你米国不也是安了个不带套的罪名追着人家Assange满世界跑。
米国自己也不是说defamation就可以不受限制啊。
compatriot.
【在 K*****2 的大作中提到】
: Censorship is a must, says China's Nobel winner
: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/dec/07/mo-yan-censorship-n
: This year's Nobel Prize in literature winner, Mo Yan, who has been
: criticised for his membership in China's Communist Party and reluctance to
: speak out against the country's government, has defended censorship as
: something as necessary as airport security checks.
: He also suggested he won't join an appeal calling for the release of the
: jailed 2010 Peace Prize laureate, Liu Xiaobo, a fellow writer and compatriot.
: Mo has been criticised by human rights activists for not being a more
: outspoken defender of freedom of speech and for supporting the Communist
| m*****t
发帖数: 2800 | 5 其实都是生活常识。西方反常识不过是故意恶心中国而已。 | l*****o
发帖数: 9235 | | k*****r
发帖数: 474 | | w*p
发帖数: 16484 | 8 看来这次颁奖，莫言没有椅子坐了。莫言站着领奖，旁边放个空椅子。 | b******t
发帖数: 218 | | b******t
发帖数: 218 | 10 莫言说希望刘小波能尽早出狱，这跟释放刘晓波是两个意思，有人篡改眼睛都不眨一下
。 | | | c**********r
发帖数: 472 | 11 sb偷换概念，最肤浅的辩论技巧，骗不了美国佬的。土鳖还是见识少。 | o*****D
发帖数: 1563 | 12 远哲
【在 m**********n 的大作中提到】
: Taiwanese-American chemist Yuan T Lee
| H*********S
发帖数: 22772 | 13 听了莫言的话，诺贝尔委员会委员们脸色青一阵白一阵，“莫言呐莫言，给你发奖的一
番苦心全TM付之东流了。。。再说，看来你是不想再要和平奖了？” | c*****t
发帖数: 10738 | 14 中国censor的只是rumor和defamation么？莫言还真是揣着明白装糊涂。不过也可以理
解，他也只能这么说。 | c**********u
发帖数: 7276 | 15 西方指望从莫言身上找突破口，看来是白费心思了。
compatriot.
【在 K*****2 的大作中提到】
: Censorship is a must, says China's Nobel winner
: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/dec/07/mo-yan-censorship-n
: This year's Nobel Prize in literature winner, Mo Yan, who has been
: criticised for his membership in China's Communist Party and reluctance to
: speak out against the country's government, has defended censorship as
: something as necessary as airport security checks.
: He also suggested he won't join an appeal calling for the release of the
: jailed 2010 Peace Prize laureate, Liu Xiaobo, a fellow writer and compatriot.
: Mo has been criticised by human rights activists for not being a more
: outspoken defender of freedom of speech and for supporting the Communist
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