{"id":106431,"date":"2024-09-01T11:48:21","date_gmt":"2024-09-01T15:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=106431"},"modified":"2024-09-01T12:59:36","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T16:59:36","slug":"%e5%bb%96%e4%ba%a6%e6%ad%a6%ef%bc%9a-famed-chinese-artists-the-inseparable-gao-brothers-have-now-been-torn-apart-by-chinas-own-berlin-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=106431","title":{"rendered":"\u5ed6\u4ea6\u6b66\uff1a Famed Chinese artists, the inseparable Gao Brothers, have now been torn apart by China\u2019s own \u2018Berlin Wall.\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-header\">\n<div class=\"jeg_meta_container\">\n<div class=\"jeg_post_meta jeg_post_meta_1\">\n<div class=\"meta_left\">\n<div class=\"jeg_meta_author coauthor\">\u6765\u6e90\uff1a\u6b27\u6d32\u4e4b\u58f0<\/div>\n<div class=\"jeg_meta_date\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sinoeurovoices.com\/news\/19057\">2024-09-01<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"jeg_meta_category\"><span class=\"meta_text\">\u5728<\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sinoeurovoices.com\/news\/category\/english\" rel=\"category tag\">English<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sinoeurovoices.com\/news\/category\/%e4%ba%ba%e6%96%87%e5%a4%a9%e4%b8%8b\" rel=\"category tag\">\u4eba\u6587\u5929\u4e0b<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sinoeurovoices.com\/news\/category\/%e4%ba%ba%e6%ac%8a%e8%a7%80%e5%af%9f\" rel=\"category tag\">\u4eba\u6b0a\u89c0\u5bdf<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sinoeurovoices.com\/news\/category\/%e9%97%9c%e6%b3%a8%e7%86%b1%e9%bb%9e\" rel=\"category tag\">\u95dc\u6ce8\u71b1\u9ede<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"meta_right\">\n<div class=\"jeg_meta_zoom\" data-in-step=\"3\" data-out-step=\"2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"jeg_featured featured_image\">\n<div class=\"thumbnail-container animate-lazy\">\n<div id=\"attachment_106432\" style=\"width: 238px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-106432\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-106432\" src=\"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/004-1-228x300.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/004-1-228x300.webp 228w, https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/004-1.webp 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-106432\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brother Gaos&#8217; art piece. \u00a9Gao Brothers<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brother Gaos&#8217; art piece. \u00a9Gao Brothers<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"jeg_share_top_container\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"jeg_ad jeg_article jnews_content_top_ads \">\n<div class=\"ads-wrapper  \">\n<div class=\"ads_code\"><a id=\"translateLink\"><\/a>\u8f6c\u6362\u7b80\u4f53<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content with-share\">\n<div class=\"jeg_share_button share-float jeg_sticky_share clearfix share-normal\">\n<div class=\"jegStickyHolder\">\n<div class=\"theiaStickySidebar\">\n<div class=\"jeg_share_float_container\">\n<div class=\"jeg_sharelist\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-inner \">\n<div>\n<div class=\"fb-like fb_iframe_widget\" data-href=\"https:\/\/sinoeurovoices.com\/news\/19057\" data-size=\"small\" data-colorscheme=\"light\" data-width=\"90\" data-layout=\"button\" data-action=\"like\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-share=\"false\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"\" title=\"fb:like Facebook Social Plugin\" 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href=\"https:\/\/sinoeurovoices.com\/news\/19040\">\u56de\u6b78\u5f8c\u9996\u9593\u50b3\u5a92\u767c\u5e03\u717d\u52d5\u520a\u7269\u7f6a\u6210 \u6b50\u76df\u4fc3\u7576\u5c40\u6062\u5fa9\u5c0d\u9999\u6e2f\u65b0\u805e\u81ea\u7531\u4fe1\u5fc3<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"jeg_post_meta\">\n<div class=\"jeg_meta_date\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sinoeurovoices.com\/news\/19040\"><i class=\"fa fa-clock-o\"><\/i>\u00a02024-08-30<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"jeg_block_navigation\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Today, the Gao brother in the West must speak for his brother detained inside the Wall. This dilemma may give the world a new kind of performance art.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19059\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sinoeurovoices.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/000-1.jpg?resize=924%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" sizes=\"(max-width: 924px) 100vw, 924px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sinoeurovoices.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/000-1.jpg?resize=924%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 924w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sinoeurovoices.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/000-1.jpg?resize=271%2C300&amp;ssl=1 271w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sinoeurovoices.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/000-1.jpg?resize=768%2C851&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sinoeurovoices.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/000-1.jpg?resize=750%2C831&amp;ssl=1 750w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sinoeurovoices.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/000-1.jpg?w=1083&amp;ssl=1 1083w\" alt=\"\" width=\"924\" height=\"1024\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" data-pin-no-hover=\"true\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>As a \u201crecorder of this shameful era,\u201d I look forward to the Communist Party\u2019s trial of Gao. This will be\u00a0 the greatest possible boost for the Gao Brothers\u2019 years-long series of political pop art. The trial of the arrested Gao Shen and the fugitive Gao Qiang is putting not the defendants but rather Mao Zedong and his incarnation, Xi Jinping on trial.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19060\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sinoeurovoices.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/001-1.jpg?resize=615%2C410&amp;ssl=1\" sizes=\"(max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sinoeurovoices.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/001-1.jpg?w=615&amp;ssl=1 615w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sinoeurovoices.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/001-1.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"615\" height=\"410\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" data-pin-no-hover=\"true\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Last May, the writers\u2019 human rights promotion organization PEN America invited me to New York, where I learned that Gao Shen\u2019s family had moved from Beijing to Long Island, New York, and had settled down. That was a relief for him\u2026 I repeatedly warned him never to go back.\u00a0 I never expected that this would happen\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>To all my fellow artists, writers, poets, and comrades who have rebelled against this regime, let me say that Xi Jinping\u2019s dictatorship is now utterly lawless. During the regime\u2019s terminal madness, if you don\u2019t have a death wish, don\u2019t make any more stupid mistakes, and don\u2019t harbor any illusions about the regime.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19061\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sinoeurovoices.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/002-1.jpg?resize=720%2C720&amp;ssl=1\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sinoeurovoices.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/002-1.jpg?w=720&amp;ssl=1 720w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sinoeurovoices.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/002-1.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sinoeurovoices.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/002-1.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sinoeurovoices.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/002-1.jpg?resize=75%2C75&amp;ssl=1 75w\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" data-pin-no-hover=\"true\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>We all witnessed Liu Xiaobo\u2019s tragedy. No matter how famous you are, when you are confronted by\u00a0 someone like\u00a0 \u201cEmperor Xi\u201d with the cultural level of a second-grader,\u00a0 dreaming that you can find a way out of\u00a0 your trap is just that \u2013 a dream.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19062\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sinoeurovoices.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/003-1.jpg?resize=720%2C372&amp;ssl=1\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sinoeurovoices.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/003-1.jpg?w=720&amp;ssl=1 720w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sinoeurovoices.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/003-1.jpg?resize=300%2C155&amp;ssl=1 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"372\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" data-pin-no-hover=\"true\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Here is the first public statement by one of the Gao Brothers:<\/p>\n<p><em>Gao Shen, who has settled in the U.S., returned to China with his wife and children to visit relatives. They planned to fly back to New York from Beijing on September 3.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>On the morning of August 26, around 11 a.m., about thirty police officers suddenly swarmed into the Gao Brothers\u2019 studio in Yanjiao, searched for incriminating evidence, and demanded that Gao Shen hand over his phone. Gao refused and was forcibly handcuffed and taken away.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>On August 27, Gao\u2019s wife received a detention notice from the Sanhe Public Security Bureau, only to learn that Gao had been criminally detained by the Sanhe Public Security Bureau on August 26 on suspicion of violating the honor and reputation of heroes and martyrs. He is currently being held in the Sanhe detention center.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19063\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sinoeurovoices.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/005-1.jpg?resize=720%2C891&amp;ssl=1\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sinoeurovoices.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/005-1.jpg?w=720&amp;ssl=1 720w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sinoeurovoices.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/005-1.jpg?resize=242%2C300&amp;ssl=1 242w\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"891\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" data-pin-no-hover=\"true\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The artworks collected as evidence by the police were phase works reflecting on Mao Zedong\u2019s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution dating from over a decade ago. However, the crime of infringing on the honor and reputation of heroes and martyrs was only implemented as a criminal offense in 2021. Is it contrary to the commonly accepted \u201cinvalidity of<em>\u00a0ex post facto<\/em>\u00a0laws\u201d in modern law: a state cannot punish someone for behavior that was not sanctioned by law at the time of the offense.<\/p>\n<p>Setting aside whether Mao is a hero or martyr, let us remember that when Mao led China, he accused Xi Jinping\u2019s father, Xi Zhongxun, of using a novel to oppose the Party.<\/p>\n<p>Today, in Xi\u2019s era, who is now accusing Gao Shen of using art to oppose Mao? Isn\u2019t this ironic? One wonders whether the officials who ordered Gao\u2019s arrest and the investigators handling the case have not thought this through.<\/p>\n<p>Could it be that they don\u2019t understand the irony of all this?<\/p>\n<p>Or are simply not afraid of provoking the boss dragon\u2019s wrath?<\/p>\n<p>Do they truly believe that Xi Jinping, who for years has been talking about leading China and the world to a \u201ccommunity with a shared future for mankind\u201d really does not understand the irony in this?<\/p>\n<p>Why go through all this trouble!\u00a0 Perhaps it would be wise to consider that just possibly that these troubles will become so great that Xi that news of this foolishness will reach the ears of Emperor Xi, enrage his imperial countenance, and he will order that that this ridiculous proceeding be aborted.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u767c\u8a93\u6c38\u4e0d\u5206\u96e2\u7684\u570b\u969b\u77e5\u540d\u85dd\u8853\u5bb6\u9ad8\u6c0f\u5144\u5f1f\u7d42\u65bc\u88ab\u300c\u67cf\u6797\u56f4\u7246\u300d\u5fb9\u5e95\u5206\u96e2\u3002<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-issues","category-c","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106433,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106431\/revisions\/106433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}