Liu Binyan Research Articles

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In this study, we focus on two young writers, Liu Binyan and Liu Shaotang. In Re-blooming Flowers(1979), in which their works were included, works by writers who were published between 1956 and 1957 but were criticized after the anti-rightist struggle are included. In this paper, we focus on the two young writers, and examine their works and the content and methods of their criticism. Criticism of those examined through Journal of Literature and Art was made in the form of criticism through critique papers, holding a criticism conference, and writing articles about the criticism conference and remarks there. However, criticism of writers and works is not limited to the ban on individual activities and publication of works, but also affects many parts of the literary world. For example, ‘Young Literary Workers Discussion’ was held. In there, through criticism and self-criticism, they re-educated young writers who were already working in literature. In addition, in the wake of the massive criticism of these young writers, the existing method of nurturing new writers was abandoned and the direction was changed to mass training of amateur creators. In addition, the publication of literary periodicals also faced various changes as the direction of how to define and help young creators and readers to foster was changed. As such, it can be seen that ‘criticism and its prohibition’ did not end with itself, but at least in the late 1950s, as a criticism mechanism, had an impact on the entire literary world in many ways.

Rethinking China's Rise: A Liberal Critique

Rethinking China's Rise: A Liberal Critique

STANDING UP FOR LIBERTY: A CONVERSATION WITH PERRY LINK

In this enormously rich and spirited conversation, Perry Link reminisces about his training as a student of Chinese language and literature in the midst of American involvement in the Vietnam War, his early understanding of Chinese revolution and socialism, and his encounters with such well-known Chinese intellectuals as Liu Binyan and Fang Lizhi during the late 1980s and after, as well as his involvement with the publication of the Tiananmen Papers.

Two Kinds of Truth: Stories and Reportage from China. Liu Binyan , Perry Link

Two Kinds of Truth: Stories and Reportage from China, by Liu Binyan, edited by Perry Link. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. xiv + 304 pp. US$55.00 (hardcover), US$21.95 (paperback). The name of Liu Binyan will be very familiar to anyone who has been watching China in recent decades. His novella, People or Monsters, first published in Chinese in 1979, was an example of what became new genre of narrativized investigative reporting (baogao wenxue) that sought to expose dark side of socialism. Two Kinds of Truth is revised and expanded version of Perry Link's translation, People or Monsters? And Other Stories and Reportage from China after Mao (Indiana University Press, 1983). For readers who already have the earlier work, the revised version includes an additional two short stories, two review essays on 1990 works, and an interview with Liu Binyan in September 2004, year before his death. Liu Binyan was talented writer who had decisive impact on late 1970s and early to mid-1980s China. After falling out with the authorities, he left China in 1988 and, after his denunciation of the Beijing massacre of June, 1989, was never able to return. In exile in the US, Liu remained an assiduous follower of the Chinese contemporary scene, and, as Link points out, he retained a powerful analytical ability (p. x) which allowed him unrivalled insight into the workings of the Chinese political system. In this book Perry Link allows us to see Liu Binyan, the man and his works, from the perspective of three decades of observations on Chinese literary culture. The interview with Liu Binyan is particularly interesting and offers insights into the sorts of conditions that emboldened authors in China to publish works they knew could expose them to insecurity if not imprisonment and exile. Born in Harbin, Liu Binyan joined the Communist Party as young idealist in the 1940s but in the early 1950s he was deemed rightist for his early publications and spent decades under cloud. During the Cultural Revolution he did stint at cadre school in rural Henan. As with many intellectuals who were sent down to the countryside, he was shocked by rural poverty but impressed by the ingenuity and resilience of the Chinese peasants. By the late 1970s he was able to return to his hometown of Harbin and was struck by the cynicism and corruption he saw there. His reportage was born of this sense of disillusionment with the socialist ideals of his youth. On reading these stories and reports from more than twenty years ago, it is sobering to notice how very relevant they are to the situation today. In the twentyfirst century, Chinese newspapers routinely expose corrupt officials and reports of executions of major offenders are regular occurrence. …

The “Active Rightists” of 1957 and Their Legacy: “Right-wing Intellectuals,” Revisionists, and Rights Defenders

In this article, Chen Ziming makes use of recent publications and many first-hand witness accounts to bring a new perspective to the Anti-Rightist Campaign of 1957. The first part draws a distinction between “active rightists” (zhudong youpai) and “passive rightists” (beidong youpai)and further divides the former category into three groups: “right-wing intellectuals”, “revisionists” and “rights defenders, analysing the specificities of and differences between these groups. While the “right-wing intellectuals” consisted of democratic personalities influential prior to 1949, particularly Zhang Bojun and Luo Longji, who advocated “changing the constitution and the mode of government,” the “revisionists” encompassed intellectuals within the Party (Li Shenzhi and Liu Binyan) as well as students raised “under the red flag” (Lin Xiling and Tan Tianrong). Influenced by recent developments within the communist camp, they denounced the personality cult and the excesses of the system and called for a change of political and ideological line in favour of a “great democracy.” The “rights defenders” referred to the constitution of the People’s Republic of China to denounce violations of political rights (in particular during political campaigns), and of individual freedoms, economic and social rights, as well as the absence of liberty in the scientific, cultural, and artistic spheres (epitomized by the suppression of entire academic fields such as law, political science, and sociology). The last part of the article highlights the legacy of the movement, and describes how its ideas have been taken further by various forces campaigning for a democratisation of China. For this issue of China Perspectives, we have chosen to publish a full translation of the part of Chen Ziming’s essay that deals with the first group of rightists, the “right-wing intellectuals,” as well as substantial extracts from the last part. (Editor’s note)

Two kinds of truth: stories and reportage from China

Editor's Note An Interview with Liu Binyan Perry Link Part I. Speech to the Congress of Literature and Art Workers Listen Carefully to the Voice of the People Translated by Kyna Rubin Part II. Reportage People or Monsters? Translated by James V. Feinerman Sound Is Better than Silence Translated by Michael S. Duke The Second Kind of Loyalty Translated By Richard W. Bodman Report on a Void Investigation Translated by Perry Link Part III. Fiction Warning Translated by Madelyn Ross The Fifth Man in the Overcoat Translated by John S. Rohsenow Part IV. Review Essays An Unnatural Disaster Translated by Perry Link A Great Leap Backward? Translated by Perry Link Contributors

Agency via Guilt in Anchee Min's Red Azalea

The number of Mainland Chinese legally entering the United States has been soaring since 1978. Although a large number of them came as students and visiting scholars, many have acquired citizenship or status as resident aliens. In 1997 alone 41,100 Mainland Chinese entered the United States as legal immigrants (Statistical 11) and 46,958 as students (Digest 472). This growing community has found almost no voice in its newly adopted country other than through the publication of personal narratives of China's political upheavals. Nien Cheng's sensational 1986 autobiography Life and Death in Shanghai marked the beginning. It was followed by Liu Binyan's A Higher Kind of Loyalty (1990), Jung Chang's Wild Swans (1991),' Anchee Min's Red Azalea (1994), and more. This body of literature by immigrants from the People's Republic of China represents a new and distinctive form of writing by Chinese writers in the English-speaking world, one which bears an especially heavy burden of social responsibility because of its critical potential. Except for Nien Cheng, whose identity and ideological make-up are rooted in the pre-communist era, the other three writers have been reared in socialist China, with Liu Binyan being a communist himself, Jung Chang a daughter of elite communist cadres, and Anchee Min belonging to the generation of young radicals, the Red Guards. In spite of the adversities they braved during the AntiRightist Movement (1957) and the Cultural Revolution (1966-76), they have preserved their Marxian and socialist outlooks. As they endure blatant exploitation at their work places in the United States, many Mainland Chinese immigrants have become genuinely interested in the thought of Karl Marx, which most of them previously had studied involuntarily. Also it is their Marxist and socialist education that arouses in them rage over the effects upon

Intellectuals and the state in post-Mao China

List of Tables Acknowledgements Preface Introduction Pro-Democracy Movements in Post-Mao China The Reformer Intellectual: Yan Jiaqi The Radical Reformer: Fang Lizhi The Mouthpiece of the People: Liu Binyan The Cultural Iconoclast: Liu Xiaobo The Changing Relationship between the State and the Intellectuals in Post-Mao China Beyond Organized Dependence: The Impact of the Market Economy on the Role of Intellectuals Conclusion Bibliography Appendix Index

The Opening of the Chinese Mind: Democratic Changes in China Since 1978 (review)

490 China Review International: Vol. 3, No. 2, Fall 1996 Jing Lin. The Opening ofthe Chinese Mind: Democratic Changes in China Since 1978. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 1994. xv, 186 pp. Hardcover $49·95> isbn 0-275-94594-4. Those looking for a liberal-democratic interpretation of recent Chinese history would be interested in Jing Lin's The Opening ofthe Chinese Mind. Professor Lin outlines the oppression of "Communist China" and then discusses the monumental economic, political, and cultural changes that occurred between 1978 and 1989. Her conclusion is that "Setting up a democratic system in China is going to be a slow process but will likely proceed, for the people are no longer passive and obedient citizens but are becoming increasingly more critical thinkers and effective participants in processes that affect their own lives." This emergence of a new "critical thinking," which is echoed throughout the volume, leads to the major criticism of the project. Though Lin is stressing openmindedness and criticism, she does not exercise much of it herself. The book is peppered with stereotypes ofboth China and "the West" that romanticize the oppression /freedom opposition that liberal analysis sets up. In this way, Lin is actually reproducing much of the power relationships that she and others criticize so vehemently: it is "out with the old and in with new" all over again. This time it is out with "communism" and in with "capitalism," out with "politics" and in with "economics." Rather than look at the new dynamic of political-economics now that relations have been commodified, Lin leaves us with the impression that now everyone is free, when actually now everythingis very expensive . Lin actually points these things out—but as a celebratory note rather than an analysis. Still, politics is not gone; it has merely shifted to a new terrain. Perhaps the problem here is that Lin is trying to cover too large an area in too small a space and with too few resources: the author bases her research into "the Chinese Mind" on twenty questionnaires. Many of the details in the book are nonetheless fascinating, but before the reader can get a critical view, Lin has moved on to the next topic. In other words, the analysis is quite thin, and sometimes very sloppy. For example, the opening lines state that Mao Zedong ruled China for twenty-seven years—completely rolling over the internal struggles of the Communist Party. This actually reinscribes an official view ofhistory: jiefangqian /hou, before/after liberation, where liberation is now in 1976 rather than 1949. Though it may be convenient, postulating such a clean break tends to lead one© 1996 fry University away from a critical view ofboth the past and the present. ofHawai'i PressJjn ^50 misspells the romanization ofone ofher main sources: it should be Liu Binyan, not Liu Binyian. Likewise, she translates Heshangas "River Eulogy" rather than "River Elegy" or "Deathsong of a River." There is quite a difference Reviews 491 between a "Eulogy," which is characteristically full ofpraise, and an "Elegy," which is more mournful. IfLin thinks that "Eulogy" is more appropriate for shang (grief), then she should argue her case. William A. Callahan University of Durham, United Kingdom William A. Callahan is a lecturer in EastAsian International Relations in the Politics Department, and is workingon a book titled Confucian Ideology and Greater China. Liu Sola. Chaos and AU That. Translated by Richard King. Honolulu: University ofHawai'i Press, 1994. 134 pp. Hardcover $19.95, ISBN 0-8248-1617-x. Paperback $11.95, isbn 0-8248-1651-x. Freshness is a good thing, but freshness must soon fade. It often happens that a new work is welcomed because it speaks in a fresh voice, talks ofthings formerly suppressed, and represents characters that the reader has never met in print before and outlooks that have changed because the times have changed. But when the novel has become familiar, it may suffer the fate ofan old newspaper, to be consigned to the library archives, having had its day. Liu Sola's novelette Chaos and All Thathad all the qualities of freshness just mentioned when it was published in Hong Kong in 1991. It spoke for a generation ofChinese...

Tiananmen and the Future of China

Essay| September 01 1994 Tiananmen and the Future of China Liu Binyan Liu Binyan Liu Binyan served as a special correspondent for the Chinese Communist party newspaper Renmin ribao from 1979 to 1987. While at the paper Liu became well known for his investigative reporting on corruption in the party. He was expelled from the party in 1987. He is presently serving as chairman of the executive committee of the Princeton China Initiative. A collection of his essays has been published as China’s Crisis, China’s Hope (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1990). This article was translated from the Chinese by David M. Kamen. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Current History (1994) 93 (584): 241–246. https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.1994.93.584.241 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Liu Binyan; Tiananmen and the Future of China. Current History 1 September 1994; 93 (584): 241–246. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.1994.93.584.241 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentCurrent History Search This content is only available via PDF. © 1994 by The Regents of the University of California1994 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Introduction to "A Dialog with Li Zehou—The Sensate, The Individual, My Choice"

Li Zehou and Vera Schwarcz argue that key political events in twentieth century Chinese intellectual history, like the May Fourth Movement, separate one generation of intellectuals from the next.1 I have also frequently heard contemporary Mainland intellectuals speak of generational differences among themselves. In lectures, Liu Binyan often contrasts the idealism and suffering of his generation with the disillusionment of the younger group of intellectuals and writers that grew up during the Cultural Revolution. This notion of generation seems to distinguish between an older group (whose ideas, personalities, and coteries have been well established) and a younger and unproven one. The relationship between these successive generations has taken a variety of forms, but one can also argue that it has two paradigms. On the one hand, there is a relationship based on the idea of continuity, on the idea that a pupil from the younger generation obediently carries on a tradition or school of thought his older master inherited or created. The best example of this master-disciple relationship is Confucius's relationship to his followers. This idea also has strong familial overtones, and can be seen in the stress Confucian texts give to the bond between father and son, and to the values that underlie this bond: the notions of xiao, or filial piety, and zhong, or loyalty. This idea of chuan or transmission from one generation to the next is a strong element in sinicized religions like Chan Buddhism. Transmission of an idea, or even a family name, is a value informing many aspects of life in late imperial society. Mary Rankin and Hilary Beattie's work on family lineages shows how local elites used all the financial, cultural, and political means available to them to preserve the elite status of their extended families over several hundred years.2 Education, provided by teachers in local village and lineage schools, was the key to transmitting and inculcating these ethical values of loyalty, obedience, filial piety, and ethical behavior. The values informing this intergenerational relationship obligated the teacher to act in a morally conscious way, but also gave him power over his pupils, who were taught to obediently follow him.

The Long March from Mao

Essay| September 01 1993 The Long March from Mao: China’s De-Communization Liu Binyan Liu Binyan Liu Binyan served as a special correspondent for the Chinese Communist party newspaper Renmin ribao from 1979 to 1987. While at the paper Liu became well known for his investigative reporting on corruption in the party. He was expelled from the party in 1987. He is presently serving as chairman of the executive committee of the Princeton China Initiative. A collection of his essays has been published as China’s Crisis, China’s Hope (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990). This article was translated from the Chinese by David M. Kamen. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Current History (1993) 92 (575): 241–244. https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.1993.92.575.241 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Liu Binyan; The Long March from Mao: China’s De-Communization. Current History 1 September 1993; 92 (575): 241–244. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.1993.92.575.241 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentCurrent History Search This content is only available via PDF. © 1993 by The Regents of the University of California1993 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

“Tell the World”: What Happened in China and Why. By Liu Binyan with Ruan Ming and Xu Gang, translated by Henry L. Epstein. [New York: Pantheon, 1989. 195 pp.] - China's Crisis, China's Hope. By Liu Binyan, translated by Howard Goldblatt. [Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1990. 150 pp. $22.50.

“Tell the World”: What Happened in China and Why. By Liu Binyan with Ruan Ming and Xu Gang, translated by Henry L. Epstein. [New York: Pantheon, 1989. 195 pp.] - China's Crisis, China's Hope. By Liu Binyan, translated by Howard Goldblatt. [Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1990. 150 pp. $22.50.] - Volume 128

Making Sense of June 4, 1989: Analyses of the Tiananmen TragedyThe Chinese People's Movement: Perspectives on Spring 1989.Tony SaichCrisis at Tiananmen: Reform and Reality in Modern China.Yi Mu , Mark V. ThompsonBehind the Tiananmen Massacre: Social, Political, and Economic Ferment in in China.Chu-yuan Cheng`Tell the World': What Happened in China and Why.Liu Binyan , Ruan Ming , Xu Gang ,

Previous articleNext article No AccessReview ArticleMaking Sense of June 4, 1989: Analyses of the Tiananmen Tragedy The Chinese People's Movement: Perspectives on Spring 1989. Tony Saich Crisis at Tiananmen: Reform and Reality in Modern China. Yi Mu , Mark V. Thompson Behind the Tiananmen Massacre: Social, Political, and Economic Ferment in in China. Chu-yuan Cheng `Tell the World': What Happened in China and Why. Liu Binyan , Ruan Ming , Xu Gang , Henry L. Epstein China Rising: The Meaning of Tiananmen. Lee Feigon , Ivan R. Dee Judy PolumbaumJudy Polumbaum Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Volume 26Jul., 1991 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2307/2949872 Views: 8Total views on this site Journal History This article was published in The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs (1979-1995), which is continued by The China Journal (1995-present). Copyright Australian Journal of Chinese AffairsPDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

The Disparity between Idealistic and Instrumental Chinese Reformers

In the summer of 1987, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) imposed punishments on a second group of leading intellectuals. Wu Zuguang, vice president of China's Association of Writers and Artists; Zhang Xianyang, head of the Division of Studies on Marx and Engels in the Institute of Marxism, Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS); and Wang Ruoshui, former deputy editor-in-chief of the People's Daily, were purged from party membership, and Su Shaozhi, party secretary and director of the Institute of Marxism, Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought, was removed from those two leading positions. Although the authorities did not publicize this action, its implication was no less significant than the public purge of the first group of leading intellectuals in January-Fang Lizhi, Liu Binyan, and Wang Ruowang. The political fortunes of two prominent advocates of reforms in the second group, Su Shaozhi and Wang Ruoshui, are a particularly accurate indicator of the conflicting ideological frameworks for China's reform program. In order to bring out the implications of Su's and Wang's experiences, we need to review briefly the general tendencies in China's ideological field during the past decade.

Assault on the Reforms: Conservative Criticism of Political and Economic Liberalization in China, 1985–86

Following Hu Yaobang's resignation as general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party on 16 January 1987, the political and economic reforms sponsored by Deng Xiaoping since 1978 came under intense criticism. Warning against “bourgeois liberalization” and renewed “spiritual pollution” from the west, Party conservatives reacted to student demonstrations in December 1986 by reversing the “Double Hundred” policy of literary and scientific freedom and by engineering the purge of the ardent westernizers Fang Lizhi, Liu Binyan and Wang Ruowang. Deng Liqun's “Leading Group to Oppose Bourgeois Liberalism,” Chen Yun's Central Discipline Inspection Commission (CDIC), and the outspoken Peng Zhen emerged as the main ideological watchdogs favouring restrictions on individual expression. But even the pro-reformer Zhao Ziyang condemned western ideas as “pernicious,” just as his chief secretary Bao Tong, warned intellectuals against “writ[ing] only about (the merits) of developed capitalist countries.”

Main Points of Deng Xiaoping's Speech on the Current Problem of Student Disturbance

Main Points of Deng Xiaoping's Speech on the Current Problem of Student Disturbance

Stubborn Weeds: Popular and Controversial Chinese Literature after the Cultural Revolution.Perry LinkPeople or Monsters? And Stories and Reportage from China after Mao.Liu Binyan , Perry Link

Previous articleNext article No AccessReviewsStubborn Weeds: Popular and Controversial Chinese Literature after the Cultural Revolution. Perry Link People or Monsters? And Stories and Reportage from China after Mao. Liu Binyan , Perry Link Kam LouieKam Louie Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Volume 14Jul., 1985 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2307/2159037 Journal History This article was published in The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs (1979-1995), which is continued by The China Journal (1995-present). Copyright Australian Journal of Chinese AffairsPDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

People or Monsters? And Other Stories and Reportage from China After Mao. By Liu Binyan. Edited by Perry Link. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983. 165 pp. $15 (cloth); $6.95 (paper).

People or Monsters? And Other Stories and Reportage from China After Mao. By Liu Binyan. Edited by Perry Link. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983. 165 pp. $15 (cloth); $6.95 (paper).

“People or Monsters,” and Other Stories and Reportage From China After Mao. By Liu Binyan. Edited by Perry Link. [Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983. 140 pp. Hardcover: $15.00, £9·75; paperback: $6.95, £4·52.

“People or Monsters,” and Other Stories and Reportage From China After Mao. By Liu Binyan. Edited by Perry Link. [Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983. 140 pp. Hardcover: 6.95, £4·52.] - Volume 98