A wave of arrests of liberal authors has not allayed growing China Online liberal movement, despite the recent arrest of high-profile of the artist and activist Ai Weiwei.
Skip to the next paragraphAlthough human rights groups called the arrests "repression", the determination of bestselling and controversial Chinese novelist Li Chengpeng shows that some critics of the Government remain outspoken.
Mr. Li, a blogger prominent and is the author of a novel which deals with taboo subject normally land seizures, said that he did not fear repression from the Government. "As a man, if you are going to do something, you have to deal with all the consequences."
Amnesty International believes that more than 100 journalists, writers and activists have been arrested or detained without charge in the last three weeks, following uprisings in the Middle East and on the Internet calls for demonstrations throughout Chinese cities.
The arrest of Mr. Ai and other artists were part of a widespread effort to contain the critical voices in traditional and new media. Corinna-Barbara Francis, a researcher with Amnesty International Southeast Asia, said that although the inmates were not all defenders of democracy, what they have in common "is that the regime feels threatened by them."
But the arrests represent a change in tactics, not in the objectives of the policy, said David Bandurski, research project for the China media project at the University of Hong Kong. "The Government has never given up control of media, or the expression of public opinion generally," he said. "But there is no doubt that what we have seen in recent months, is tightening."
Despite this attempt to "hardening", Li belongs to a new generation of Chinese authors who have to come from the importance in the era of the Internet. His developed novel confident and aggressive criticism, widely available online, to a wide audience of printing - unknown in a country with a vast and sophisticated censorship regime.
Li novel, "Li Kele combat demolition," seems to strike an agreement with the public in tackling the demolition and forced relocation of neighbourhoods. After the rejection by every major publisher in Beijing, Li has succeeded to introduce the book in print with an obscure publishing house in the remote Province of Gansu.
The book was an instant best-seller, to Li, a former journalist and popular blogger, hero online. He he exposed also to attacks in the media, he rejects; "They are the Government compensation." They get a little money each month, and they write these things. If people like that are the criticism you, you should be speaking for the people. ?
A book on the enforced demolition and popular demonstrations which then is unprecedented in China today. Online articles and the articles of the blog on their subject are often censored a few minutes. The official media resolutely ignore the topic.
The novel taps into strong feelings, which tells the story of a group of residents who refuse to leave their homes are planned for destruction. Led by the reluctant hero of the novel, residents build barricades concrete and fly bayonets and Fireworks factories, defying the authorities and the fight against the rows battles against the local police.
It fun slogans national, writing, "in China, there is nothing of the sort that real estate - at least, nobody knows if this is really real." First of all that they told us, "you can buy a House, it's yours!" But then, they added another part: "but the Government is the owner of the land." And then they said, "and the House is part of the land." What has our houses, really? ?
The novel has attracted the attention of the members of groups funded by the Government as the Union of writers, as well as People's Republic of China of a wide range of current and former officials.
In a tirade of four pages on his blog, Deputy Mayor Jiang Zongfu, of the city of Linxiang in Hunan Province, dismissed the issues raised by the novel "a pack of lies". He wrote "Read it is painful,".
Li - which explains his next book will focus on the sensitive topic of the unique child China policy - is no stranger to test the limits of the Government. In 2009, when he wrote a series of exposes on Chinese football industry, he has received threats. At one point, he said, he borrowed identity cards to his friends and used to verify every night in different rooms of the Hotel Beijing, fearing reprisals from organized crime.
As a blogger, he sneers his censorship, reposting articles prohibited and wrote, "the only way for you to delete this article is to delete my blog, and the only way to delete my blog is to remove me.".
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