Wang Lixiong

Wang Lixiong is a Chinese writer and intellectual. He was born in 1953 at Changchun in Manchuria. [ [http://perspectiveschinoises.revues.org/document181.html Wang Lixiong, an atypical intellectual] ]

Biography

Wang Lixiong was born in 1953 at Changchun in Jilin province and resides in Beijing. He was sent for re-education during the Cultural Revolution, and had to study of mechanical enineering. After the Cultural Revolution, he worked in an automobile factory in Mandchourie, then in Wuhan. He has been interested in the politics and conceptualised a model of " electoral system by steps" as early as 1975. In 1978, he participated in the movement of the " Wall of Democracy" and published his first essay in the magazine Jintian (Mandarin for "today"). He published his first novel in 1983. In 1984, he travelled along the River Yangtze on a raft crossing Tibetan territories, and began to consider in the Tibetan question. He joined the Association of the Chinese Writers in 1988 and resigned in 2001. In 1994, he finished a book on political theory, "Rongjie Quanli – Zhuceng Dixuan Zhi" (Broadcasting of the strength – an electoral system by steps), proposing democratic reformations adapted to China. In 1994, Wang Lixiong participated in the creation of a non-governmental organization for the protection of the environment, Ziran Zhi You (The Friends of Nature). Between 1995 and 1998, he travelled often to Tibet and published the study Tianzang: Mingyun of Xizhang (Celestial Funeral: the Destiny of the Tibet). In 1999, he became interested in the Xinjiang and would be arrested, but published in 2001 Xinjiang Zhuiji (Remember Xinjiang) where he goes back over his misadventures in Urumchi. Wang Lixiong had the occasion to meet the Dalai Lama with whom he has had long discussions. In 2002, he published Yu Dalailama Duihua (Discussions with the Dalai Lama).

Wang Lixiong supported Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, an important Tibetan Lama of the region of Litang who was accused of bomb attack. December 13 2002, Wang Lixiong and 24 other Chinese intellectuals signed a petition that requested independent lawyers in the trial in appeal of Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, the right for local and international media to cover the trial and to interview the officials of the Chinese government and the possibility for representatives of the Tibetan community in exile to attend the process. Wang Lixiong and other Chinese authors in China and outside China invited Chinese authorities to consider seriously the middle way approach proposed by the Dalai Lama and consider it as the basis of a negotiated statute for the future of Tibet. Wang Lixiong thinks that the Dalai Lama is the key to resolve the question of Tibet [ [http://www.tibet.ca/en/newsroom/wtn/archive/old?y=2007&m=7&p=4_1 Lack of progress threatens dalai Lama detente] ] , [ [http://www.tibet.net/en/tibbul/2006/1112/focus3.html Current statuses of negotiations one originating from Tibet] ] . He met with the Dalai Lama and his analysis of the question of Tibet is described in his work " Unlocking Tibet" [ [http://www.tibetfocus.com/ta/ta_94.pdf Erst gemeinsam können wir viel bewirken!] ]

Wang Lixiong is married to the Tibetan poetesse and analyst Öser. The two blogs of Öser suddenly were closed fine July 2006, at the request of Chinese authorities and while a censorship wave denounced by Reporters sans frontières. Öser published there essays on the Tibetan culture, as well as articles of Wang Lixiong whose forum also was closed [ [http://www.agoravox.fr/article.php3?id_article=12712 A very eventful summer for the Dalaï Lama and Tibet] ] .

Publications

* 1990 Huanghuo (Yellow Peril), written under the pseudonyme of Bao Mi (lit. "Tenu Secret"),
* 1994 Rongjie quanli – zhuceng dixuan zhi (Diffusion du pouvoir – un système électoral par étapes)
* 1998 Xizang de mingyun (Funérailles célestes : le destin du Tibet
* 2001 Xinjiang zhuiji (Souvenirs du Xinjiang)
* 2002 Yu dalailama duihua (discussion with the Dalai Lama).
* 2002 "Reflections on Tibet"
* 2005 "Unlocking Tibet: A Chinese Author’s Perspective on Tibet Issue", Switzerland, by Wang Lixiong and Woeser

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