Category: Liu Xiaobo Elegies

  • [Download Wilson’s selected text here.]   [Return to Table of Contents.] WILSON LEUNG 梁允信 is a barrister whose legal practice focuses on commercial litigation and constitutional law. Before turning to law, he studied philosophy at the London School of Economics and…

    Wilson Leung
  • [Download Akin’s selected text here.]   [Return to Table of Contents.] Canadian poet AKIN JEJE lives in Hong Kong. His works have been published and featured in Canada and Hong Kong. His poetry collection Smoked Pearl was a semi-finalist for the…

    Akin Jeje
  • [Mary’s selected poems, both by Liu Xiabao, can be found below.]   [Return to Table of Contents.] 〈卡夫卡:我對你說 —- 給酷愛卡夫卡的妻〉 卡夫卡,我对你说 在透明的蓝天下 想起你 肯定是一种亵渎 但我分明在蓝天下 在半个苍白的月亮中 看见了你 你那双受虐狂的眼睛 瞳人的正中 晃动着你爹的皮带 皮带的后面是一张咀嚼的大嘴 而更深处是漆黑、寒冷的阳台 你惊恐于 自己的瘦弱和父亲的伟岸 如同耗子惊恐于猫的敏捷 于是,你的笔 变成一棵老树上 最早干枯却 最后折断的枝杈 历尽疯狂的沧桑 复归于平静…

    Mary Shuk-han Wong
  • [Nashua’s selected poem can be found below.]   [Return to Table of Contents.] Your Lifelong Prisoner by Liu Xiaobo, written from prison [via.] To Xia My dear, I’ll never give up the struggle for freedom from the oppressors’ jail, but I’ll be…

    Nashua Gallagher
  • [Download Kai-cheung’s selected text here.]   [Return to Table of Contents.] Dung Kai-cheung 董啟章 was born in Hong Kong in 1967 and received his BA and MPhil in comparative literature at the University of Hong Kong. He has won several literary…

    Dung Kai-cheung
  • [Patrick’s selected text can be found below.]   [Return to Table of Contents.] from Liu Xiaobo’s last statement, “I Have No Enemy”: . “Hatred can rot away at a person’s intelligence and conscience. Enemy mentality will poison the spirit of a…

    Patrick Poon
  • [Susan’s poem can be found below.]   [Return to Table of Contents.] Liu Xiao Bo has Left China by Susan Lavender 柳安霞 Adam’s rib: she remained part of him, To the last, even when the light was so dim. She…

    Susan Lavender
  • [Download Michael’s selected text here.]   [Return to Table of Contents.] Originally from Ireland, MICHAEL O’SULLIVAN is a Hong Kong-based academic, teacher and writer. He is also an editor of Hong Kong Studies, the first academic journal devoted entirely to Hong Kong.…

    Michael O’Sullivan
  • [Download Mei Kwan’s selected text here.]   [Return to Table of Contents.] NG MEI KWAN 吳美筠 is a well-established Hong Kong writer with substantial experience in both creative and media writing. Her first poetry collection won an award as Outstanding…

    Ng Mei Kwan
  • [Download Lucas’s selected poems here.] [Return to Table of Contents.] LUCAS KLEIN 柯夏智 (PhD, Yale) is a father, writer, and translator whose work has appeared in LARB, Jacket, Rain Taxi, CLEAR, Comparative Literature Studies, and PMLA, and from Fordham, Black…

    Lucas Klein
  • [Evelyn’s selected text can be found below.] [Return to Table of Contents.]  from Liao Yiwu’s《證詞》: . 《證詞》附錄:獄 信 3 1991年7月30日 . 鳥羽:  . 這兒進出的信件要經過嚴格的檢查,我曾因亂塗亂寫吃過不少苦頭,電棒烙舌頭, 反銬雙手,罰曬太陽,罰唱歌,罰睡濕地,拳打腳踢自不必說。最惱火的是卡斷通信,一卡幾個月,這兒一個叫「劉溫柔」的幹事就經常卡信。即使這樣,一有機會我就要寫一些永遠交不出的信,用自己造的竹筆蘸紫藥水寫,只要加不了刑,我就寫。寫著玩。我相信寫過的東西,那怕留不下去,腦子裡總是有印像的。 不能悶在心裡,否則會出毛病。  . 隔壁房有犯人肚子爛了個洞,他就用筷子挑洞裡的膿血給他媽寫信,寫完後疼得要死要活。因為這事,管房政府取消了全房通信,回復看守所的老傳統, 每月填一次「人犯家屬送物通知單」什麼「關係——配偶;所需何物——人民幣若干元」之類。我拒絕填這種混帳玩意,老謝也不填,堅持了兩個月,才允許我們在通知單下面寫兩三百個字。  . 我已經變了,像頭狼,與刑事犯鬥狠,與房上哨兵罵架,撞牆自殺,用死犯暗藏的刀片割腕,給鬥毆的犯人當裁判,能玩的都玩了。我從來沒這麼不要臉。 劉溫柔罵我畜生,我就撲上去咬他,結果把一個勞改犯的手指頭快啃斷了。我被反銬二十五天,成了「獄霸」,政府在廣播裡號召眾犯檢舉揭發我,立功授獎。我可顧不了這麼多,痛得受不了就趴在大炕上歇斯底裡地慘嚎,攪得監獄動蕩不安。 直到頸部挨了趙幹事一砍掌,我五天發不出任何聲音。  . 一個因盜竊被判死罪的人抱著我,罵警察慘無人道。他叫王躍,他整理著腳鐐說:「反革命,沒想到他們也會這樣整你,賀所長還讓我寫你的加刑材料,我不寫可不是因為我仁慈。沒意思。如果他們不槍斃我,我就要大膽檢舉你的反黨言行了。」 我叫他滾開。  , 他說我是他平生最後一個朋友,他不滾開。「我是狼,從小在狼的環境裡長大, 狼群裡不可能蹦出隻善良的綿羊來。但狼有狼性,一本書裡講,當狼崽子被村上的人捉去,狼就會成群結隊跟蹤而來,圍住村莊,嚎叫到天亮,惹急了還將不顧一切的進攻,直到小狼崽被放回。這點比人,特別是比你們這種文化人強吧?」我說我不是文化人,白幹事叫我卵人。  .…

    Evelyn Char
  • [Download Lian-Hee’s selected text here.] [Return to Table of Contents.] LIAN-HEE WEE 黃良喜 is (co-)author or (co-)editor of eight books and numerous research articles. His most notable publications include the monograph Phonological Tone (Cambridge University Press, to appear) and the…

    Lian-Hee Wee
  • [Download William’s selected text here.] [Return to Table of Contents.] WILLIAM NEE is a China Researcher for Amnesty International and an Executive Committee Member of PEN Hong Kong. He carries out research on human rights in China, particularly on freedom of expression,…

    William Nee