王力雄（1953年5月2日－ ），中国大陆作家、藏学家、民族问题专家及民间环保人士。祖籍山东龙口，汉族，现居北京。
王力雄生于吉林长春。母亲是长春电影制片厂的编剧。父亲王少林在文革前担任长春第一汽车厂的副厂长，1968年被打成“走资派”和“苏修特务”，死于被拘押中，定为“畏罪自杀”。1969年王力雄随从“牛棚”释放的母亲下乡插队4年，开始写诗。1973年作为工农兵学员在吉林工业大学汽车专业学习，大学期间（1975年）产生“逐层递选制”的设想。毕业后分配到长春第一汽车厂工作，先在车间当工人，一年后成为车间技术员，开始写小说和电影剧本。
1978年王力雄主动申请调动到湖北第二汽车厂工作，从事计算机技术应用于企业管理，其间参与民主墙活动，并在油印刊物《今天》发表第一篇小说——《永动机患者》。1980年以“借调”形式离开二汽，脱离中国官方体制。
此后王力雄写电影剧本，并在电影摄制组工作。1983年写作第一部长篇小说《天堂之门》。1984年，王力雄独自在青海藏区的黄河源头乘用汽车内胎扎捆的筏子漂流1200余公里，横贯黄河上游的藏族地区，从此开始对西藏的关注。1985年－1986年年写作纪实小说《漂流》，1987年出版。1988年加入中国作家协会。1988年开始写作政治寓言小说《黄祸》，署名为“保密”，1991年由香港明镜出版社出版。1991年－1994年，写作《溶解权力——逐层递选制》，1998年出版。
1994年，与梁从诫、杨东平、梁晓燕等人成立了中国大陆第一个民间环保组织——自然之友，此后策划和亲自参与数个长期项目。
1995年－1998年，在十次深入西藏和各省藏区，在藏时间累计2年，走遍所有藏区的基础上，写作《天葬：西藏的命运》。此后王力雄四次与第十四世达赖喇嘛见面交流。1999年1月起，王力雄在新疆收集资料，准备写新疆民族问题的著作。1月29日，被中国国安部以涉嫌泄漏国家机密为由逮捕，关押42天后释放。王力雄以此经历写成《新疆追记》一文，在网上公开发表。1999年出版文集《自由人心路》。
2001年5月2日，公开发表声明退出中国作家协会，他在声明中发问：“究竟是中国的作家天生就是僵尸，还是中国的“作家协会”想把并且正在把中国的作家变成僵尸？”
2002年4月，出版了《与达赖喇嘛对话》。2002年创办“递进民主”个人网站。2002年12月，发起对四川藏区阿安扎西活佛案的签名请愿活动，呼吁当局公正审理。2003年2月，因政府方面的命令，时任“自然之友”理事的王力雄被自然之友除名。2004年，由台湾大块文化出版《递进民主——中国的第三条道路》。2004年底，与藏族女作家唯色结婚。
2007年10月，经过历时九年的调查和思考，在台湾大块文化出版新疆问题著作《我的西域，你的东土》。
主要著作
* 《黄祸》，1991年，政治寓言小说。该书描绘中国陷于政治、经济、文化、人口与生态的重大危机，终于导致整个社会的总崩溃，难民大批冲出国境，危及世界和人类的存在。这部小说引起海外媒体追踪报道，王力雄也由此获誉“中国最敢言的作家”。该书后来入选亚洲周刊二十世纪中文小说一百强，列第41位，至今仍在港台及海外畅销。
* 《天葬：西藏的命运》，1998年，西藏问题专著。王力雄在书中以大量的亲身经历和实地所见来陈述他的论证，涉及到了西藏问题的历史、现状与各个方面。这部著作在汉人与藏人中都得到了高度的评价，被认为是迄今为止研究西藏问题最为客观、深刻的著作之一，展现出王对西藏这片土地的深切悯怀与过人洞见。海外媒体曾组织研讨会专门予以讨论。2009年推出增订版。
* 《自由人心路》，1999年，以生态环境保护为主的思想随笔。书后附录小册子《溶解权力》，政治制度设计专著。这部书讨论的是选举方式，并提出了一个全新的概念－“逐层递选制”，就是希望以此方法使中国大陆的体制安全转型。
* 《与达赖喇嘛对话》，2002年，对话录。
* 《递进民主——中国的第三条道路》，2004年，政治制度设计专著。参考了主流学术界的行文方式，重新诠释了“逐层递选制”，并对中国当前的经济、生态、社会、政治危机进行了深入剖析。
* 2007年7月，与妻子唯色合著的英文文集《Unlocking Tibet》在瑞士出版。书中收录他数年来研究西藏问题的多篇文章。
* 《我的西域，你的东土》，2007年，新疆问题专著，《天葬：西藏的命运》的姊妹篇。整理收入了99年曾发表于互联网的《新疆追记》一文，另有王此后四次重返新疆的见闻，对新疆当地维族人士的访谈，以及如何解决新疆问题的思考。书中有大量的实拍维族图片和民俗情况记述，都是首次公开。
* 散篇：《911启示录》，《末法时代——藏传佛教的功能及其被毁坏》，《达赖喇嘛是西藏问题的钥匙》，《有关达赖喇嘛的一个幻想小说提纲》，《新疆追记》，《民族主义与宗教》，《西藏面对的两种帝国主义——透视唯色事件》，《毛泽东主义与人间天堂》，《底层毛泽东与“经济文革”》，《中国从文革得到什么》，《以超越者联盟突破精英联盟》等。
[编辑] 评价
王力雄于1980年代初，就脱离大陆的单位体制，开始了特立独行地自由创作。王力雄的几部作品在海外出版后，产生较大影响。在大陆他的主要著作虽然至今都无法正式出版，但互联网络中仍有一些作品流传，坊间也能看到部分盗版流通。
有人认为，虽然王的著作数量不算多，但几乎都是相关领域的精品。诸如对于毛泽东和文化大革命，对于西藏、新疆的民族问题，对于宗教，对于西方民主制，对于中国未来的政治制度设计，对于环境生态保护，多有深刻独到的剖析与论见，发人所未发，令人耳目一新；其著作文笔简洁，往往篇幅短小，却处处紧扣实际，蕴涵丰富；王的文章不偏不倚，关照博大，字里行间不时流露出对于国家民族的深远悲悯与关怀。亦有论者认为，王力雄是中国大陆当前极少有的具有创造性、前瞻性与自由精神的杰出学者。
王力雄本人最为看重他的“递进民主”设想，自称其份量超过《黄祸》、《天葬》二书的总和。对此海内外思想界看法不一。有观点以为这是一个大胆、充满想象力，但也可能非常实际的政治理想，是西方民主与大陆现行体制以外的第三条道路，可称原创性的政治改革方案，是中国社会思想引导权力的契机；也有反对者批评说，王的这一制度在大陆现实社会中没有启动的动力和支点，完全把希望寄托于最高统治者的恩赐和良心发现，同时无力应对当前中国深重的道德文化危机，因而只能是不切实际的民主妄想，是乌托邦与永动机的翻版。
Wang Lixiong (Chinese: 王力雄; pinyin: Wáng Lìxióng, born 2 May 1953) is a Chinese writer and scholar, best known for his political prophecy fiction, Yellow Peril , which was ranked 41st in The 100 Most Influential Chinese Novels in 20th Centuryby Asia Weekly and has gained widespread popularity in China as well as worldwide media attention despite having been banned by the communist regime.
Wang is also a well-known Tibetologist, specialist and critic of Chinese-Tibetan relations, his book Sky Burial:The Fate of Tibet is considered the first and best choice for people who wants to explore into issues of Tibet in a rational way and with full spectrum of views.
Wang is regarded as one of the most outspoken dissidents, democracy activists and reformers in China.
Early Life and Education
Wang Lixiong was born in 1953 at Changchun in Jilin province and currently resides in Beijing. His mother was a playwright of Changchun Film Group Corporation, and his father, Wang Shaolin, was the vice president of China Fist Automobile Works, who was alleged to have been a Capitalist roader and Soviet revisionism spy by the communist regime during Cultural Revolution, and committed suicide in 1968 after his long imprisonment.
Together with many fresh high school graduates in cities, Wang was sent to countryside for four years from 1969 to 1973 following Mao Zedong's Down to the Countryside Movement, a result of the anti-bourgeois thinking prevalent. In 1973, he was admitted into Jilin University of Technologyby virtue of his hard laboring during the so-called reeducation, and after the graduation, he was assigned to work in China Fist Automobile Works that his father used to work.
In 1980, Wang quitted his job and became a freelance until now.
[edit] Adventures
Wang is an adventurous explorer, having traveled to all the provinces of mainland China, mostly the less developed areas, through biking, hiking or riding etc.
His most famous adventure was the solo rafting along the upper reaches of Yellow River, the cradle of Chinese civilization, in Amdo area of Tibet Plateau in 1984. It took him three months to travel 1200km on a raft made of inner tubes of truck tires by himself. And his diary during the time was published in 1988 by Huacheng Publishing with the title Drifting.
Notably, the journey aroused the greatest passion of him in that beautiful and mysterious land, Tibet! And consequently, much of his later work was related to Tibet.
[edit] Writing Highlights
In 1983, Wang’s first novella The Patient of Perpetual Motion Machine was published by Jintian (Mandarin for "today"). It is a story about a farmer’s journey to invent Perpetual Motion Machine with the faith that he, his family and his village would be salvaged from poverty by having this magic machine. The protagonist was widely considered very symbolic of the author himself – quixotic or idealistic.
In 1991, Yellow Peril was published by Mirror Books under pseudonym Bao Mi (Mandarin for "Kept Secret"), painted an apocalyptic scenario in which civil war erupts between north and south China - with Nationalist-ruled Taiwan backing the south - and ends in nuclear conflict and millions of starving refugees spilling across borders. For years, the author of one of the best-selling novels in the Chinese-speaking world was known simply to readers as "Bao Mi", for Wang’s own protection because he broke taboos and spelled China's doomsday. Yellow Peril was recently translated into English as China Tidal Wave.
Beginning with his solitary adventure rafting across Tibet plateau along the upper reaches of Yellow River in 1984, and after more than a decade study of Tibet during which he had been to Tibet dozens of times and lived in that region for more than two years, Wang finished his book Sky Burial: The Fate of Tibetin 1998. The book, with the honest and unbiased views; throughout investigation of histories; detailed analysis of issues and comprehensive supporting data, immediately won him high regards from both the supporters of Chinese government and followers of The Dalai Lama, and became a mandate in Tibet study.
From 1991 to 1994, he wrote a book of political theory, Dissolving Power: A Successive Multi-Level Electoral System, which drew tremendous disruptive responses although he himself valued it the most – some believed it offers a promising solution that China could and should adopt for a smooth transition towards democracy, some think it is purely a dream of utopia.
After ten more years of further study in progressive democracy, he completed another political theory book Bottom up Democracies in 2006. Realizing that it is not possible to promote his theory in China and make it a political reality, he started to research on internet development trying to find the linchpin which will connect his theory with real world.
[edit] Social Activities
In 1994, Wang Lixiong initiated as one of the founders The Friends of Nature, an environment protection organization, the first non-governmental organization in China, was forced to resign in 2003 on the request from Chinese government.
To support Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, an important Tibetan Lama of the region of Litang who was accused of being involved in a bomb attack and sentenced to death panelty, On December 13, 2002 Wang Lixiong and 24 other Chinese intellectuals issued a petition requesting the right to appoint independent lawyers for Rinpoche's trial, as well as the right for local and international media to cover the trial and interview Chinese government officials; in addition, the petition called for representatives of the Tibetan community in exile to attend the proceedings.
In 2001, Wang issued a public statement on his decision to resign from Chine Writers Association: “It is not only acquiescence which is demanded, but also the annihilation of the whole personality, of all conscience and of all individual pride, that we are being made into crouching dogs. Belonging to this organization is no longer an honor, on the contrary, is a shame of any writer worthy of the name”.
Believing that the Dalai Lama is the key to resolve the issues of Tibet[1], [2], Wang Lixiong, together with other Chinese intellectuals, strongly urged Chinese authorities to take the middle way approach proposed by the Dalai Lama into serious consideration as it showed the deepest sincerity from the Dalai lama, should be treated as the basis for any further negotiations for the future of Tibet. He was invited 4 times to meet with the Dalai Lama with regard to this matter. His analysis of middle way was elaborated in his work Unlocking Tibet.[3] And his meeting with the Dalai Lama was documented in his article Dialogues with the Dalai Lama.
In the wake of Tibet riot on 3/10/2008, Wang, with the support from the pro-democracy activities in China, urged the Chinese government to invite UN investigators to Tibet to change the international community’s distrust of China, and on March 22, 2008, issued a 12-point petition about the situation in Tibet. [1]
[edit] Arrest and Imprisonment
Wang first began to study Xinjiang in 1999. When conducting research for a book following the same suit of Sky Burial:The Fate of Tibet, he was arrested for photocopying an internal publication - stamped as “secret” - of Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, and attempted suicide in a high-security prison in Miquan before recanting and promising to collaborate in order to obtain his release. He recorded the incident in a short essay entitled Memories of Xinjiang published in 2001. In prison, he shared a cell with a Uyghur prisoner arrested in Beijing for organizing a demonstration protesting discrimination (Mokhtar), with whom he entered into a long and ongoing discussion on Xinjiang which formed the backbone of his book My West China; Your East Turkestan published in 2007. In this book, Wang concluded that Xinjiang’s issues had dangerously “Palestinized.” The XinJing riot [2] in July 2009 proved his fear.
Wang would be placed under house arrest whenever there were sensitive incidents or events. i.e. the outbreak of anti-Chinese protests in Tibet in March, 2008; [3]
[edit] Awards and Honors
2009 Light of Truth Award honored by the Dalai Lama on behalf of ICT [4]
2007 Honorary membership, Chinese Studies Association of New Zealand
2003 Hellman-Hammett Grants, Human Rights Watch
2002 Freedom of Expression Award, Independent Chinese Pen Association
2002 Visiting Scholarship, US Congress
1999 The 100 Most Influential Chinese Novels in 20th Century (Yellow Peril ranked 41st), Asia Weekly
[edit] Works
[edit] Books
2009 Voices from Tibet (听说西藏), Lotus Publishing (co-authored with Tsering Woeser)
2009 Sky Burial: The Fate of Tibet, 2nd Edition (天葬:西藏的命运再版), Lotus Publishing
2009 The Struggle for Tibet, Verso Publishing (co-authored with Tsering Shakya)
2008 China Tidal Wave (English edition of Yellow Peril translated by Anton Platero), Global Oriental Ltd.
2008 Yellow Peril, New Century Edition (黄祸新世纪版), Lotus Publishing
2007 My West China; Your East Turkestan (我的西域; 你的东土), Lotus Publishing
2006 Bottom-up Democracy (递进民主), Lotus Publishing
2006 Unlocking Tibet, Tersey Tsultim Publishing
2002 Dialogue with Dalai Lama, Renjian Publishing
2002 The Spiritual Journey of a Free Soul, China Movie Publishing
1998 Dissolving Power: A Successive Multi-Level Electoral System (溶解权力: 逐層递选制), Mirror Books Publishing
1998 Sky Burial: The Destiny of Tibet (天葬:西藏的命运), Mirror Books Publishing
1991 Yellow Peril (黄祸), Mirror Books Publishing
1988 Drifting (漂流), Huacheng Publishing
1984 Gate to Heaven (天堂之门), Huacheng Publishing
[edit] Major Tibet Related Essays
2008 History of Tibetan-Chinese Relations (西藏与中国的历史关系)
2008 Roadmap of Tibet Independence (西藏独立路线图)
2009 Mappō (末法时代)
2004 The Two Types of Imperialisms That Tibet Encounters (西藏面临的两种帝国主义)
2002 Cultural Reflections on Tibet Issues (西藏问题的文化反思)
2000 A Successive Multilevel Electoral System vs. a Representative Democratic System: Comparison on Resolutions for Tibet Issues (逐层递选制与代议民主制: 解决西藏问题的方法比较)
[edit] Columnist Contribution
2004 - Present Radio Free Asia, Washington D.C.
2002 Ming Bao, Hong Kong
王力雄生于吉林长春。母亲是长春电影制片厂的编剧。父亲王少林在文革前担任长春第一汽车厂的副厂长，1968年被打成“走资派”和“苏修特务”，死于被拘押中，定为“畏罪自杀”。1969年王力雄随从“牛棚”释放的母亲下乡插队4年，开始写诗。1973年作为工农兵学员在吉林工业大学汽车专业学习，大学期间（1975年）产生“逐层递选制”的设想。毕业后分配到长春第一汽车厂工作，先在车间当工人，一年后成为车间技术员，开始写小说和电影剧本。
1978年王力雄主动申请调动到湖北第二汽车厂工作，从事计算机技术应用于企业管理，其间参与民主墙活动，并在油印刊物《今天》发表第一篇小说——《永动机患者》。1980年以“借调”形式离开二汽，脱离中国官方体制。
此后王力雄写电影剧本，并在电影摄制组工作。1983年写作第一部长篇小说《天堂之门》。1984年，王力雄独自在青海藏区的黄河源头乘用汽车内胎扎捆的筏子漂流1200余公里，横贯黄河上游的藏族地区，从此开始对西藏的关注。1985年－1986年年写作纪实小说《漂流》，1987年出版。1988年加入中国作家协会。1988年开始写作政治寓言小说《黄祸》，署名为“保密”，1991年由香港明镜出版社出版。1991年－1994年，写作《溶解权力——逐层递选制》，1998年出版。
1994年，与梁从诫、杨东平、梁晓燕等人成立了中国大陆第一个民间环保组织——自然之友，此后策划和亲自参与数个长期项目。
1995年－1998年，在十次深入西藏和各省藏区，在藏时间累计2年，走遍所有藏区的基础上，写作《天葬：西藏的命运》。此后王力雄四次与第十四世达赖喇嘛见面交流。1999年1月起，王力雄在新疆收集资料，准备写新疆民族问题的著作。1月29日，被中国国安部以涉嫌泄漏国家机密为由逮捕，关押42天后释放。王力雄以此经历写成《新疆追记》一文，在网上公开发表。1999年出版文集《自由人心路》。
2001年5月2日，公开发表声明退出中国作家协会，他在声明中发问：“究竟是中国的作家天生就是僵尸，还是中国的“作家协会”想把并且正在把中国的作家变成僵尸？”
2002年4月，出版了《与达赖喇嘛对话》。2002年创办“递进民主”个人网站。2002年12月，发起对四川藏区阿安扎西活佛案的签名请愿活动，呼吁当局公正审理。2003年2月，因政府方面的命令，时任“自然之友”理事的王力雄被自然之友除名。2004年，由台湾大块文化出版《递进民主——中国的第三条道路》。2004年底，与藏族女作家唯色结婚。
2007年10月，经过历时九年的调查和思考，在台湾大块文化出版新疆问题著作《我的西域，你的东土》。
主要著作
* 《黄祸》，1991年，政治寓言小说。该书描绘中国陷于政治、经济、文化、人口与生态的重大危机，终于导致整个社会的总崩溃，难民大批冲出国境，危及世界和人类的存在。这部小说引起海外媒体追踪报道，王力雄也由此获誉“中国最敢言的作家”。该书后来入选亚洲周刊二十世纪中文小说一百强，列第41位，至今仍在港台及海外畅销。
* 《天葬：西藏的命运》，1998年，西藏问题专著。王力雄在书中以大量的亲身经历和实地所见来陈述他的论证，涉及到了西藏问题的历史、现状与各个方面。这部著作在汉人与藏人中都得到了高度的评价，被认为是迄今为止研究西藏问题最为客观、深刻的著作之一，展现出王对西藏这片土地的深切悯怀与过人洞见。海外媒体曾组织研讨会专门予以讨论。2009年推出增订版。
* 《自由人心路》，1999年，以生态环境保护为主的思想随笔。书后附录小册子《溶解权力》，政治制度设计专著。这部书讨论的是选举方式，并提出了一个全新的概念－“逐层递选制”，就是希望以此方法使中国大陆的体制安全转型。
* 《与达赖喇嘛对话》，2002年，对话录。
* 《递进民主——中国的第三条道路》，2004年，政治制度设计专著。参考了主流学术界的行文方式，重新诠释了“逐层递选制”，并对中国当前的经济、生态、社会、政治危机进行了深入剖析。
* 2007年7月，与妻子唯色合著的英文文集《Unlocking Tibet》在瑞士出版。书中收录他数年来研究西藏问题的多篇文章。
* 《我的西域，你的东土》，2007年，新疆问题专著，《天葬：西藏的命运》的姊妹篇。整理收入了99年曾发表于互联网的《新疆追记》一文，另有王此后四次重返新疆的见闻，对新疆当地维族人士的访谈，以及如何解决新疆问题的思考。书中有大量的实拍维族图片和民俗情况记述，都是首次公开。
* 散篇：《911启示录》，《末法时代——藏传佛教的功能及其被毁坏》，《达赖喇嘛是西藏问题的钥匙》，《有关达赖喇嘛的一个幻想小说提纲》，《新疆追记》，《民族主义与宗教》，《西藏面对的两种帝国主义——透视唯色事件》，《毛泽东主义与人间天堂》，《底层毛泽东与“经济文革”》，《中国从文革得到什么》，《以超越者联盟突破精英联盟》等。
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王力雄于1980年代初，就脱离大陆的单位体制，开始了特立独行地自由创作。王力雄的几部作品在海外出版后，产生较大影响。在大陆他的主要著作虽然至今都无法正式出版，但互联网络中仍有一些作品流传，坊间也能看到部分盗版流通。
有人认为，虽然王的著作数量不算多，但几乎都是相关领域的精品。诸如对于毛泽东和文化大革命，对于西藏、新疆的民族问题，对于宗教，对于西方民主制，对于中国未来的政治制度设计，对于环境生态保护，多有深刻独到的剖析与论见，发人所未发，令人耳目一新；其著作文笔简洁，往往篇幅短小，却处处紧扣实际，蕴涵丰富；王的文章不偏不倚，关照博大，字里行间不时流露出对于国家民族的深远悲悯与关怀。亦有论者认为，王力雄是中国大陆当前极少有的具有创造性、前瞻性与自由精神的杰出学者。
王力雄本人最为看重他的“递进民主”设想，自称其份量超过《黄祸》、《天葬》二书的总和。对此海内外思想界看法不一。有观点以为这是一个大胆、充满想象力，但也可能非常实际的政治理想，是西方民主与大陆现行体制以外的第三条道路，可称原创性的政治改革方案，是中国社会思想引导权力的契机；也有反对者批评说，王的这一制度在大陆现实社会中没有启动的动力和支点，完全把希望寄托于最高统治者的恩赐和良心发现，同时无力应对当前中国深重的道德文化危机，因而只能是不切实际的民主妄想，是乌托邦与永动机的翻版。
Wang Lixiong (Chinese: 王力雄; pinyin: Wáng Lìxióng, born 2 May 1953) is a Chinese writer and scholar, best known for his political prophecy fiction, Yellow Peril , which was ranked 41st in The 100 Most Influential Chinese Novels in 20th Centuryby Asia Weekly and has gained widespread popularity in China as well as worldwide media attention despite having been banned by the communist regime.
Wang is also a well-known Tibetologist, specialist and critic of Chinese-Tibetan relations, his book Sky Burial:The Fate of Tibet is considered the first and best choice for people who wants to explore into issues of Tibet in a rational way and with full spectrum of views.
Wang is regarded as one of the most outspoken dissidents, democracy activists and reformers in China.
Early Life and Education
Wang Lixiong was born in 1953 at Changchun in Jilin province and currently resides in Beijing. His mother was a playwright of Changchun Film Group Corporation, and his father, Wang Shaolin, was the vice president of China Fist Automobile Works, who was alleged to have been a Capitalist roader and Soviet revisionism spy by the communist regime during Cultural Revolution, and committed suicide in 1968 after his long imprisonment.
Together with many fresh high school graduates in cities, Wang was sent to countryside for four years from 1969 to 1973 following Mao Zedong's Down to the Countryside Movement, a result of the anti-bourgeois thinking prevalent. In 1973, he was admitted into Jilin University of Technologyby virtue of his hard laboring during the so-called reeducation, and after the graduation, he was assigned to work in China Fist Automobile Works that his father used to work.
In 1980, Wang quitted his job and became a freelance until now.
[edit] Adventures
Wang is an adventurous explorer, having traveled to all the provinces of mainland China, mostly the less developed areas, through biking, hiking or riding etc.
His most famous adventure was the solo rafting along the upper reaches of Yellow River, the cradle of Chinese civilization, in Amdo area of Tibet Plateau in 1984. It took him three months to travel 1200km on a raft made of inner tubes of truck tires by himself. And his diary during the time was published in 1988 by Huacheng Publishing with the title Drifting.
Notably, the journey aroused the greatest passion of him in that beautiful and mysterious land, Tibet! And consequently, much of his later work was related to Tibet.
[edit] Writing Highlights
In 1983, Wang’s first novella The Patient of Perpetual Motion Machine was published by Jintian (Mandarin for "today"). It is a story about a farmer’s journey to invent Perpetual Motion Machine with the faith that he, his family and his village would be salvaged from poverty by having this magic machine. The protagonist was widely considered very symbolic of the author himself – quixotic or idealistic.
In 1991, Yellow Peril was published by Mirror Books under pseudonym Bao Mi (Mandarin for "Kept Secret"), painted an apocalyptic scenario in which civil war erupts between north and south China - with Nationalist-ruled Taiwan backing the south - and ends in nuclear conflict and millions of starving refugees spilling across borders. For years, the author of one of the best-selling novels in the Chinese-speaking world was known simply to readers as "Bao Mi", for Wang’s own protection because he broke taboos and spelled China's doomsday. Yellow Peril was recently translated into English as China Tidal Wave.
Beginning with his solitary adventure rafting across Tibet plateau along the upper reaches of Yellow River in 1984, and after more than a decade study of Tibet during which he had been to Tibet dozens of times and lived in that region for more than two years, Wang finished his book Sky Burial: The Fate of Tibetin 1998. The book, with the honest and unbiased views; throughout investigation of histories; detailed analysis of issues and comprehensive supporting data, immediately won him high regards from both the supporters of Chinese government and followers of The Dalai Lama, and became a mandate in Tibet study.
From 1991 to 1994, he wrote a book of political theory, Dissolving Power: A Successive Multi-Level Electoral System, which drew tremendous disruptive responses although he himself valued it the most – some believed it offers a promising solution that China could and should adopt for a smooth transition towards democracy, some think it is purely a dream of utopia.
After ten more years of further study in progressive democracy, he completed another political theory book Bottom up Democracies in 2006. Realizing that it is not possible to promote his theory in China and make it a political reality, he started to research on internet development trying to find the linchpin which will connect his theory with real world.
[edit] Social Activities
In 1994, Wang Lixiong initiated as one of the founders The Friends of Nature, an environment protection organization, the first non-governmental organization in China, was forced to resign in 2003 on the request from Chinese government.
To support Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, an important Tibetan Lama of the region of Litang who was accused of being involved in a bomb attack and sentenced to death panelty, On December 13, 2002 Wang Lixiong and 24 other Chinese intellectuals issued a petition requesting the right to appoint independent lawyers for Rinpoche's trial, as well as the right for local and international media to cover the trial and interview Chinese government officials; in addition, the petition called for representatives of the Tibetan community in exile to attend the proceedings.
In 2001, Wang issued a public statement on his decision to resign from Chine Writers Association: “It is not only acquiescence which is demanded, but also the annihilation of the whole personality, of all conscience and of all individual pride, that we are being made into crouching dogs. Belonging to this organization is no longer an honor, on the contrary, is a shame of any writer worthy of the name”.
Believing that the Dalai Lama is the key to resolve the issues of Tibet[1], [2], Wang Lixiong, together with other Chinese intellectuals, strongly urged Chinese authorities to take the middle way approach proposed by the Dalai Lama into serious consideration as it showed the deepest sincerity from the Dalai lama, should be treated as the basis for any further negotiations for the future of Tibet. He was invited 4 times to meet with the Dalai Lama with regard to this matter. His analysis of middle way was elaborated in his work Unlocking Tibet.[3] And his meeting with the Dalai Lama was documented in his article Dialogues with the Dalai Lama.
In the wake of Tibet riot on 3/10/2008, Wang, with the support from the pro-democracy activities in China, urged the Chinese government to invite UN investigators to Tibet to change the international community’s distrust of China, and on March 22, 2008, issued a 12-point petition about the situation in Tibet. [1]
[edit] Arrest and Imprisonment
Wang first began to study Xinjiang in 1999. When conducting research for a book following the same suit of Sky Burial:The Fate of Tibet, he was arrested for photocopying an internal publication - stamped as “secret” - of Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, and attempted suicide in a high-security prison in Miquan before recanting and promising to collaborate in order to obtain his release. He recorded the incident in a short essay entitled Memories of Xinjiang published in 2001. In prison, he shared a cell with a Uyghur prisoner arrested in Beijing for organizing a demonstration protesting discrimination (Mokhtar), with whom he entered into a long and ongoing discussion on Xinjiang which formed the backbone of his book My West China; Your East Turkestan published in 2007. In this book, Wang concluded that Xinjiang’s issues had dangerously “Palestinized.” The XinJing riot [2] in July 2009 proved his fear.
Wang would be placed under house arrest whenever there were sensitive incidents or events. i.e. the outbreak of anti-Chinese protests in Tibet in March, 2008; [3]
[edit] Awards and Honors
2009 Light of Truth Award honored by the Dalai Lama on behalf of ICT [4]
2007 Honorary membership, Chinese Studies Association of New Zealand
2003 Hellman-Hammett Grants, Human Rights Watch
2002 Freedom of Expression Award, Independent Chinese Pen Association
2002 Visiting Scholarship, US Congress
1999 The 100 Most Influential Chinese Novels in 20th Century (Yellow Peril ranked 41st), Asia Weekly
[edit] Works
[edit] Books
2009 Voices from Tibet (听说西藏), Lotus Publishing (co-authored with Tsering Woeser)
2009 Sky Burial: The Fate of Tibet, 2nd Edition (天葬:西藏的命运再版), Lotus Publishing
2009 The Struggle for Tibet, Verso Publishing (co-authored with Tsering Shakya)
2008 China Tidal Wave (English edition of Yellow Peril translated by Anton Platero), Global Oriental Ltd.
2008 Yellow Peril, New Century Edition (黄祸新世纪版), Lotus Publishing
2007 My West China; Your East Turkestan (我的西域; 你的东土), Lotus Publishing
2006 Bottom-up Democracy (递进民主), Lotus Publishing
2006 Unlocking Tibet, Tersey Tsultim Publishing
2002 Dialogue with Dalai Lama, Renjian Publishing
2002 The Spiritual Journey of a Free Soul, China Movie Publishing
1998 Dissolving Power: A Successive Multi-Level Electoral System (溶解权力: 逐層递选制), Mirror Books Publishing
1998 Sky Burial: The Destiny of Tibet (天葬:西藏的命运), Mirror Books Publishing
1991 Yellow Peril (黄祸), Mirror Books Publishing
1988 Drifting (漂流), Huacheng Publishing
1984 Gate to Heaven (天堂之门), Huacheng Publishing
[edit] Major Tibet Related Essays
2008 History of Tibetan-Chinese Relations (西藏与中国的历史关系)
2008 Roadmap of Tibet Independence (西藏独立路线图)
2009 Mappō (末法时代)
2004 The Two Types of Imperialisms That Tibet Encounters (西藏面临的两种帝国主义)
2002 Cultural Reflections on Tibet Issues (西藏问题的文化反思)
2000 A Successive Multilevel Electoral System vs. a Representative Democratic System: Comparison on Resolutions for Tibet Issues (逐层递选制与代议民主制: 解决西藏问题的方法比较)
[edit] Columnist Contribution
2004 - Present Radio Free Asia, Washington D.C.
2002 Ming Bao, Hong Kong
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