1 Annotated Bibliography of Liu Xiaobo’s Texts in Chronological Order Year Chinese Title English Title Category 04/1984 艺术直觉 On Artistic Intuition 关系学院 学 1 1984 庄子 On Zhuangzi 社科学战线 05/1985 和冲突 – 中西美意的差别 Harmony and Conflicts – Differences between Chinese 京师范大学 and Western Aesthetics 学 07/1985 味觉说 Theory of Taste 科知 Early 1986 种的美思潮 – 徐星陈村索拉的 A New Aesthetic Trend – Remarks Inspired by the Works 文学 2 部作谈起 of Xu Xing, Chen Cun and Liu Suola (1986:3) 04/1986 无法回避的思 – 几部关知子的小说 Unavoidable Reflection – Contemplating Stories on 中 / MA 谈起 Intellectuals (EN 94) Thesis 03/10/1986 机，时期文学面临机 Crisis! New Era’s Literature is Facing a Crisis (FR) 深圳青 10/1986 李厚对 – Dialogue with Li Zehou (1) 中 1986 On Solitude (EN) 家 1988:2 1 th Zhuangzi was a Chinese Daoist thinker who lived around the 4 century BC during the Warring States period, when the Hundred Schools of Thought flourished. 2 Shanghai writer Chen Cun (1954-) and Beijing writers Liu Suola (1955-) and Xu Xing (1956-) who expressed contempt for the formal education of the mid-1980s and its pretention. Liu Xiaobo responded to a conservative attack on 'superfluous people' by defending these three writers who were popular in 1985 and who would be also attacked in 1990 as “rebellious aristocrats” whose works displayed a “liumang mentality.” He wrote a positive interpretation of their way of “ridiculing the sacred, the lofty and commonly valued standards and traditional attitude.” He also drew a connection between traditional “individualists” such as Zhuangzi, the poet Tao Yuanming (365-427 CE) and the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove (竹林七) as related to this modem trend of irreverence. At that time, Liu Xiaobo also repeatedly railed against the “collective impotence” (体痿) of the Chinese. Xu Xing wrote about Liu Xiaobo here. 2 3 1987 选择的批判—李厚对 Criticism of the Choice: Dialogues with Li Zehou Book 1987 的眼睛 Kafka’s Eyes 的大学 BNU 01 to 10/1987 美心理研 Research on Aesthetics Psychology 作赏 Liberation for the Chinese Lies in Self-Awakening 十, 4 01/1987 中人的解在自觉醒 (Dec. 1986 Interview with Geremie Barmé ) 1987:3 HK Criticism of Choice – Dialogue with Li Zehou Book 海人民 1987 + 89 选择的批判 – 李厚对 社 04/1987 李厚对 Epilogue to “Dialogue with Li Zehou” Book 5 04/1987 看屈原 How I See Qu Yuan 关文学 04/1987 漫漫的苦难程 The Everlasting Experience of Suffering 关文学 08/1987 再时期文学面临机 Further Comments on Literature of New Era is Facing 家 1988:1 Crisis 01 to 06/1988 文学系文 Serial Essays on Foreign Literature 大学 th 6 Tragedy of Enlightenment – Criticism of May 4 夏文学 02/1988 启蒙的悲剧 – “•” 批判 Movement 06/1988 美人的自 Aesthetics and Human Freedom (PhD Thesis) BNU Press 07/07/1988 美和人的自 Epilogue to “Aesthetics and Human Freedom” Book 3 Li Zehou (1930-) is a Chinese scholar of philosophy and intellectual history who resides in the United States since 1991. 4 Geremie Barmé (1954-) is an Australian sinologist based at the Australian National University. Scanned interview on file with author. 5 Qu Yuan (343-278 BC) was a Chinese poet and minister who lived during the Warring States period of ancient China. Liu Xiaobo is critical of Qu Yuan as he see in him the Chinese model of the loyal patriot. 6 See also in 明 (HK) 281 (1989): 37-45. 3 7 Metaphysics and Chinese Culture 启蒙 I :10 + 1988 形而学中文 明刊 HK Mao Zedong: A Devil Incarnate (EN) 解 10/1988 混世魔王毛 11/1988 HK Interview with Liu Xiaobo: the “Dark Horse” of the 解 12/1988 文 “黑马” 晓 – 晓答者 Literati 11/1988 HK River Elegy isn’t Thorough Enough – A Critique of River 解 12/1988 河够彻 份脑青晓批判河 Elegy by Angry Youth Liu Xiaobo (EN) 11/1988 HK – 8 Foreigners’ Salons and Cultural Invasion 解 1989 03/1989 样沙龙文侵略 HK (3) Going Naked Toward God Book 1989 赤裸体，走向帝 (unpublished) The Fog of Metaphysics Book 1989 形而学的迷雾 (Shanghai) Mysteries of Thought and Dreams of Mankind (2 Book (Taiwan) 1989 思想谜人类梦 volumes) 9 20/04/1989 Suggestions for Reform Ming Pao, HK 悲剧英的悲剧 – 胡邦逝世象， The Tragedy of a Tragic Hero – Three Critiques of the Hu 世界日 USA ， Yaobang Phenomena (1, 2, 3) (EN) 22/04/1989 7 This text was published in a book series edited by Wang Yuanhua entitled New Enligthenment. 8 According to Geremie Barmé, the first part of this article is a riposte to the "ill informed" Trivia of the Peking Foreigners' Salons (京洋沙龙的形形色色) by Yang Manke (杨漫克). 9 Published with Hu Ping and Chen Jun, it urged the CPC to reflect on and correct its errors, and suggested to reevaluate the anti-Spiritual Pollution movement in 1983 and the anti- Bourgeois Liberalization movement in 1987, to amend the Constitution by removing the Four Cardinal Principles from the Constitution and inserting language safeguarding human rights, allowing private publications, ending the conviction of people based on their words, and implementing genuine freedom of speech and of the press. 4 10 22/04/1989 中大学生的公开信 Open Letter to College Students in China 狂妄–中文的道德的 Arrogance Will Be Punished by Heaven – On the Fatal 明報刊 谬误 Consequences of Moral Absolutism in Chinese Culture 1989:8 悲剧英的悲剧 – 胡邦逝世象， The Tragedy of a Tragic Hero – Three Critiques of the Hu 解 HK ， Yaobang Phenomena (1, 2, 3) 04/1989 13/05/1989 师大党的公开信 Open Letter to Communist Party of BNU Appeal 13/05/1989 们的建 Our Suggestions (BNU Autonomous Student Union) 明報刊 HK 告海人关心中题的人士 An Appeal to Overseas Chinese and to All Foreigners Appeal 11 17/05/1989 书 Concerned with China's Problems 12 23/05/1989 Unknown Our Suggestions Tract 02/06/1989 六·绝言 June Second Hunger Strike Declaration EN/FR 13 On the Doorway to Hell – Reconsidering Marxism 闻自 30/09/1989 在地狱的入处 – 对马克思的再检 No. 11 14 Contemporary Politics and Intellectuals of China 唐山 1990 中治中知份子 社 10 A list of 7 suggestions sent from New York by Liu Xiaobo, Hu Ping, Chen Jun, and eight others to the demonstrating students. 11 See English translation in Ogden, S. (1992) China's Search for Democracy: The Student and the Mass Movement of 1989. (pp. 220-221). 12 Released in the name of the Independent Student Union of Beijing Normal University. It called for the the growth of civic consciousness (公民意). recognition and inclusion of the workers and peasants in a Solidarity-like campaign, for an end to martial law and an emergency session of the National People’s Congress, for organized autonomous groups to hold elections to represent their interests, for students to reflect on their movement, reorganize themselves on a rational and democratic basis, and for the eight impotent political parties to push for real political power. 13 US-based weekly Press Freedom Herald edited by Cao Changqing, previously editor of Shenzhen Youth Daily. 14 The book was translated in Japanese in 1992 and in English in 1995 by Roger Noether in the journal Chinese Law & Government, Volume 38, Issue 4 & 5 (2005). 5 Epilogue to “Chinese Politics and Contemporary Taiwan 03/1989 中治中知份子 Intellectuals” (EN/FR) Reflections of an anti-traditionalist, the revelation in New West 1990 中治中知份子 York 1993 在海边 Sitting on the Beach Philosophical 1993 日幸者的 Monologue of a Doomsday's Survivor Book (Taiwan) 01/1993 Interview for Gate of Heavenly Peace Documentary An Inside View of the Cultural Life of People on the 中时周刊 03/1993 Toushi dalu renminde wenhua shenghuo Mainland 62 俗走和无灵 – 文革的大文党文 Becoming Cheap and Soulless – Post-Cultural Revolution Beijing Spring Chinese Popular Culture and Party Culture 00/05/1993 In Hell, I Do Not Complain About the Darkness – China Spring 00/05/1993 既入地狱，就抱怨黑暗 – 采晓 Interview with Liu Xiaobo 05/06/1993 们被们的压倒 How We Are Overwhelmed With Our Sense of “Justice” United Daily News, Taiwan 1994 大的教革 That Holy Word Revolution (see 05/02/2001) History National Pride of the Slave: About the Recent Kaifang (FR) 11/1994 Unknown Nationalistic Wave in China 15 The Specter of Mao Zedong Kaifang 12: 22- 1994 中共毛派邓的困境 – 邓时的察 24 CCP as an Impostor and Deng Xiaoping’s Predicament: Open Magazine Post-Deng Era’s Testimony and Observation Kaifang Zazhi 1994 中共冒牌邓的困境 邓时的证据察 12 15 This article was published in the context of a Mao Craze at a time where speculation about the post-Deng era was rife. In it, Liu points out that Deng failed to stop Maos’ spectre from plaguing his reformist policies because he is reluctant or unable to “cut the umbilical cord to the Chairman and develop a reform strategy that could move beyond Mao.” While in Hong Kong in late 1988, Liu published a similar critique in Kaifang magazine entitled “Mao Zedong: A Devil Incarnate.” 6 Call for Medical Parole for Chen Ziming (with Bao Call 16 1995 陈子明就的公开信 (包遵信, 乐黛) Zunxin, Yue Daiyun …) 17 Anti-Corruption Proposal to Third Plenum of Eight NPC Anti-corruption 20/02/1995 腐建书 – 八届人大全 petition letter th Learn the Lessons of Blood and Promote Process of 6 anniversary, 18 汲血的教民法治程 –“六”六 Democracy and Rule of Law – Sixth Anniversary of UN year of th 05/1995 周吁书 June 4 Petition Letter tolerance Detained for 9 months at the foot of Fragrant Released 05/1995 Hills 02/1996 th I Started Smoking at 11 – Writing for 30 Anniversary of Cultural 17/04/1996 十岁开始烟 – “文革”十而作 “Cultural Revolution” Revolution 08/1996 Meet Wang Xizhe in Guangzhou th 19 October 10 Declaration (EN) Taiwan-China relationship, 10/10/1996 十言 (对前若大是的意) Political system 12/10/1996 Detained and sent to Dalian RTL 00/11/1996 狱中随笔 Essay in Prison (II) History 16 Yue Daiyun (1931-) was a professor of Literature at Peking University who signed Charter 08.