Su Xiaokang

Su Xiaokang in 2014

Su Xiaokang (Chinese: 苏晓康; born 1949) is an intellectual, writer, journalist, political activist and in 1989 was named one of China's seven most-wanted dissident intellectuals.[1] His most notable work River Elegy paved the way to the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, and his participation in the protest also forced him into the exile in the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square Massacre. Su currently resides in Delaware, in the United States.[2]

Early life

Su came from an intellectual family: His father Su Pei was the vice-president of the Central Party School and his mother was a reporter of Guangming Daily.[3] Su attended a technical college for higher education.[3] Due to his intellectual background, he was sent to a rural area as a laborer during the Cultural Revolution. After the Cultural Revolution, Su became a reporter for Henan Daily and later People's Daily, and served as a lecturer at the Beijing Broadcasting Institute and later Beijing Normal University.[3][4]

River Elegy

Su Xiaokang was highly praised by scholars and intellectuals in the 1980s, seen as one of the most iconic and popular liberal writers.[5][6] Su wrote the script for the controversial and thought-provoking documentary River Elegy, a six-part documentary that narrated the decline of Chinese civilization and culture, highlighted the differences between the "transparency" of democracy and the "opacity" of an autocracy,[4] and subtly critiqued the political system under Communist Party rule. The documentary was inspirational to numerous university students and became instrumental to the beginning of the Tiananmen Square protests.[7]

1989 Tiananmen Square Protests

Su, along with 50 writers and novelists, participated the protests in May before the arrival of Soviet General Secretary Mikhail S. Gorbachev. Su voiced his support to the students and said, "The students should not be allowed to stand alone".[8] On May 19, Su and other intellectuals signed a petition demanding democracy in China:

We, as intellectuals, in the name of our personal integrity and all our moral rectitude, with our body and mind, with all our dignity as individuals, solemnly swear never to retreat in the quest for democracy pioneered by the students with their blood and lives, never under any pretext to disengage ourselves because of cowardice, never to allow again the humiliations of the past, never to sell out our moral integrity, never to submit ourselves to dictatorship, never to pledge allegiance to the last emperors of the China of the 80's.[9]

Despite Su's vocal support of the student movement, on May 13, he went to the square and attempted to persuade the students to withdraw from the hunger strike, as he suspected the hunger strike might escalate into a "bloodbath".[5] His books were banned from sale and publication immediately after the crackdown,[10] River Elegy was denounced officially by the Communist Party, proclaiming it was counter-revolutionary.[11]

Exile

After the crackdown on June 4, the Chinese Communist Party accused Su Xiaokang as one of the "blackhands" behind the protest,[12] subsequently charging him with the crime of "inciting counter-revolutionary propaganda";[13] his exile began in an effort to escape the arrest warrant. During the exile, Su had to hide in the mountains and remote villages for three months before Operation Yellowbird successfully smuggled him to Hong Kong.[1][14] Su proceeded to France and later reunited with his wife and son in United States.[15] Since begins exile, Su has actively participated in speeches and seminars to advocate for a democracy movement in China. He founded a web-based magazine called Democratic China to continue the pro-democracy movement.[16]

Su wrote his memoir, titled A Memoir of Misfortune, published in 1997 in Chinese and in 2001 in English. The memoir documents the hardship he and his family endured after his exile and a tragic automobile accident in the Buffalo City that paralyzed his wife.[17] After A Memoir of Misfortune, Su wrote another book, The Loneliness of Delaware Bay, telling of the struggles and the challenges he faced since moving to the United States.[13] In 2013, Su published The Era of Slaying the Dragon, tackling subjects from Mao's Great Leap Forward and other atrocities occurring under the Chinese Communist Party's rule.[6][18]

In 2003, Su returned to China for his father's funeral under three conditions imposed by the Chinese government:[7]

  • No interviews with the press.
  • No making speeches.
  • No meeting with political activists.

Su's story was also featured in the Home coming campaign, funded and founded by Chu Yiu Ming, with a goal to restore the exiled democracy activists' right to return to China.[19]

References

  1. ^ a b "The World: Dissident Escapes China," Los Angeles Times, September 14, 1989. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-09-14-mn-210-story.html
  2. ^ . Lu, Xiaobo, No Enemies, No Hatred: Selected Essays and Poems, United States: Harvard University press, 2012, p.xix
  3. ^ a b c Chen, FongChing, Chen, FangZheng, and Jin, Guantao. From Youthful Manuscripts to River Elegy: The Chinese Popular Cultural Movement. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 1997, p. 219.
  4. ^ a b "Repression in China since June 4, 1989: Cumulative Data," Asia Watch Report. United States: Human Rights Watch, September 1990, p. 118.
  5. ^ a b 蘇曉康:思想啟蒙者的反思," [Su Xiaokang : Reflection by a pioneer]. BBC News, May 29, 2009. http://news.bbc.co.uk/chinese/simp/hi/newsid_8070000/newsid_8074000/8074054.stm
  6. ^ a b 嵇偉. "專訪:蘇曉康談批判毛澤東原罪的新著",[ Interview: Su Xiaokang criticized the sin of Mao in his newest book ]. BBC News, July 17, 2013. http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/trad/china/2013/07/130717_su_xiaokang.shtml
  7. ^ a b "河殤撰稿人蘇曉康今何在," [Where is Su Xiaokang the author of River Elegy ].Open Magazine, November 11, 2013. http://blog.dwnews.com/post-382746.html
  8. ^ Holley, David. "Thousands of Chinese on Bicycles Protest Censorship," Los Angeles Times, May 11, 1989. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-05-11-mn-3300-story.html
  9. ^ D. Kristof, Nicholas. "Beijing's Leaders Reported to Meet," The New York Times, June 24, 1989. https://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/24/world/beijing-s-leaders-reported-to-meet.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
  10. ^ "Beijing Decries Criticism from Abroad; Student Leader Wang Reported Arrested," June 8, 1989. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-07-08-mn-2608-story.html
  11. ^ . "中共黨史研究抨擊河殤誣指蘇曉康等人宣揚自由化," [CCP party history research accuses intellectuals including Su Xiaokang of promoting liberalism ].United Daily News, December 29, 1989. http://www.64memo.com/b5/7225.htm
  12. ^ . "聯合報系邀請 河殤作者蘇曉康即將訪台," [United Daily News invited Su Xiaokang the author of River Elegy to Taiwan]. United Daily News, December 22, 1989. http://www.64memo.com/b5/5771.htm
  13. ^ a b .Yu, Verna. "Writer Su Xiaokang Wants To 'Probe the Legitimacy of the Party' and 'Slay the Dragon of Mao," South China Morning Post, July 14, 2013. http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1282070/writer-su-xiaokang-wants-probe-legitimacy-party-and-slay-dragon-mao
  14. ^ .Chuh, Kandice, Shimakawa, Karen, and Kondo, Dorinne, Orientations: Mapping Studies in the Asian Diaspora, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001, p. 212.
  15. ^ . Su, Xiaokang, A Memoir of Misfortune, New York: Vintage, 2002, p. 41.
  16. ^ .Link, Perry. "Ghosts of Tiananmen," Washington Post, June 3, 2011. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ghosts-of-tiananmen/2011/06/03/AGNuOPIH_story.html
  17. ^ . Su, Xiaokang, A Memoir of Misfortune, New York: Vintage, 2002, p. 60
  18. ^ . "流亡失語二十四年 蘇曉康,"[Exiled and speechless for twenty four years : Su Xiaokang] MingPao Weekly, August 1, 2013. http://www.mingweekly.com/article/view/783?page=1&section=1
  19. ^ . "無家可歸" [No home to return]. http://www.homecoming.org.hk/?p=361

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