WANG LIXIONG

Wang Lixiong, born in 1953 at Changchun in Manchuria is a Chinese writer and Chinese intellectual.^[1]

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Biography

Publications

Note and references

Biography

Wang Lixiong born in 1953 at Changchun in Manchuria resides in Peking. He was sent in re-education during the cultural Revolution, and had to follow studies of mechanical automobile. After the cultural Revolution, he worked in a factory automobile in Mandchourie then in Wuhan. He is very interested in the politics and conceptualise a model of '' electoral system by steps'' as early as 1975. In 1978, he participates in the movement of the '' Wall of Democracy'' and publishes a first essay in the magazine Jintian (today). He publishes his first novel in 1983. In 1984, he travel along the Yellow river on a raft crossing Tibetan territories, and begins to be very interested in the Tibetan question. He adheres to the association of the Chinese writers in 1988 and will resign in 2001. In 1994, he finishes a political theory book, Rongjie quanli – zhuceng dixuan zhi (Broadcasting of the strength – an electoral system by steps), proposing democratic reformations adapted to China. In 1994, Wang Lixiong participate to 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 travel often to Tibet and publishes the study Tianzang: Xizang of mingyun (celestial Funeral: the destiny of the Tibet). In 1999, he is very interested in the Xinjiang and will be arrested, but publishes in 2001 Xinjiang zhuiji (Remember Xinjiang) where he goes back over his misadventures in Urumchi. Wang Lixiong had the occasion to meet at several occasion the Dalai Lama with whom he will have long discussions. In 2002, he publishes Yu dalailama duihua (Discussions with the Dalai Lama).
Wang Lixiong supported Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, an important Tibetan Lama of the region of Litang that unfairly 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, 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^[2], ^[3]. He met with the Dalai Lama and his analysis of the question of Tibet is described in his work '' Unlocking Tibet'' ^[4]
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^[5].

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).

★ 2005 ''Unlocking Tibet: A Chinese Author’s Perspective on Tibet Issue'', Switzerland, by Wang Lixiong and Woeser

Note and references

1. Wang Lixiong, an atypical intellectual
2. Lack of progress threatens dalai Lama detente
3. Current statuses of negotiations one originating from Tibet
4. Erst gemeinsam können wir viel bewirken!
5. A very eventful summer for the Dalaï Lama and Tibet