I was quite excited about the news that the Nobel Peace Prize has given to Xiaobo Liu this morning. After I got to lab, on Twitter and my email box, there were full of congratulation messages and joy for the right choice of Nobel Prize Committee. Also, another news was about the China's official condemnation and disappointed comments from people both in China and outside.
I tried to write something down in my Chinese blog. At the time, I tried to save my draft, I found that lots of words are sensitive words I can't use in my blog. Moreover, I can't publish my blog directly before it is passed the censor. Of course, this is the normal way how Chinese government uses to avoid public consensus.
This might be the first example that a nation or the official government is not honored about its citizen won the first Nobel Prize. Even some Chinese immigrants had won Nobel Prize but in the sense of nationality, they are not Chinese. This is the first Nobel Prize for Chinese people. There is no flower or applause but the forbidden words and expression. Disappointment can't express how Chinese people feel now. Even worse, if you search the Nobel Peace Prize, there is no directly positive news in China. Chinese government might blockade the news.
A few days ago, the blackmail behavior of Chinese government made many people scorned about such a huge and powerful rising government would use this kind of scheme to make other people agree with its opinion on its human right issue. It reminds me the bullies in middle school. If it is a common sense that this behavior is defective for the development of children, then why those governors are not able to see this.
Xiaobo Liu might not be known by most of the later 80s' and 90s' generation because of lack of information resources and that period of history is distorted by the official. In the long time, my history teacher told me that most of history is written by the current authority, and they normally leave the evidences which will benefit them. This is the reason truth is berried under somewhere no one is able to find it. The results might be lost of ability to distinguish right or wrong, although for some case, the line between them is blur.
Most people expected that Nobel Peace Prize is able to give Chinese people power to fast its sluggish reform in human rights, and it is a very challenge to Chinese government. It might trigger curiosity and interest for normal Chinese to dig out his records and that special history. It might arouse ordinary people to start to fight for their rights and make the Charter 08 more publicly. It might provide a breach of China's restricted sensor system. However, what will happen next fully depends on how millions of ordinary people react to this and how much they would sacrifice for the freedom of right.
