{"id":24024,"date":"2010-11-01T06:36:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T06:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=24024 "},"modified":"2010-11-01T06:36:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-01T06:36:00","slug":"24024-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=24024","title":{"rendered":"Charter 08 Framer Liu Xiaobo Awarded Nobel Peace Prize. The Troubled History and Future of Chinese Liberalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span><p><strong>Introduction<\/strong><\/p> <p>Liu Xiaobo, the primary drafter of Charter 08, has just been awarded  the Nobel Peace Prize for 2010 for &#8220;his long and non-violent struggle  for fundamental human rights in China.&#8221; The award signals international  recognition of the Chinese people&#8217;s quest for justice, universal human  rights and democracy through peaceful means.<\/p> <p>China is a rare example of a Leninist party-state that wields power  in the wake of the collapse of communism and the Soviet Union in the  late twentieth century. Its remarkable economic growth for three decades  has triggered enthusiasm home and abroad for the &#8220;Beijing Consensus&#8221; or  the &#8220;Chinese Model&#8221;, a loose conceptualization of the Chinese  experience in achieving economic growth, capitalist development, rapid  urbanization and social change at the expense of human rights. Contrary  to the view that human rights and social justice are dispensable in  order to achieve economic efficiency and create wealth, contemporary  Chinese society shows signs of deep striving for human rights,  constitutional democracy, social justice and equitable distribution.  These values are clearly articulated in the monumental document Charter  08 and powerfully exemplified in recent waves of social protest.<\/p> <p>&nbsp;<\/p> <p>The publication of Charter 08 in China at the end of 2008 was a major  event generating headlines all over the world. It was widely recognized  as the Chinese human rights manifesto and a landmark document in  China&#8217;s quest for democracy. However, if Charter 08 was a clarion call  for the new march to democracy in China, its political impact has been  disappointing. Its primary drafter Liu Xiaobo, after being kept in  police custody over one year, was sentenced on Christmas Day of 2009 to  11 years in prison for the &#8220;the crime of inciting subversion of state  power&#8221;, nor has the Chinese communist party-state taken a single step  toward democratisation or improving human rights during the year.<sup>1<\/sup>&nbsp;This  article offers a preliminary assessment of Charter 08, with special  attention to its connection with liberal forces in China.<\/p><\/span><\/div><div><\/div><div>Read the complete article from <a href=\"http:\/\/japanfocus.org\/-Feng-Chongyi\/3427\">Asia-Pacific Journal<\/a><br \/><div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;Liu Xiaobo, the primary drafter of  Charter 08, has just been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2010 for  &amp;#8220;his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in  China.&amp;#8221; The award signals international recognition of the Chinese  people&#39;s quest for justice, universal human rights and democracy through  peaceful means.&lt;\/span&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ChinaHumanRights","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\/24024","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=24024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}