Jiang Pinchao (Chinese: 蒋品超; pinyin: Jiǎng Pǐnchāo; born 1967) is a Chinese poet. He is the director of June Fourth Heritage & Culture Association, chief editor of Collection of June Fourth Poems and Collection of Human Right Poems, and the first Chinese author to be blocked by Google. He was sentenced to four years imprisonment for his active participation in the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 in China.[1]
Activist
editSentence
editDue to his participation in the student democratic movement, he was arrested and jailed for four years and deprived of political rights for two years in the First Jail of the Hubei Province in China. In 1992, along with other political prisoners, he resisted the abuse, but was tortured and confined.[2]
Internet block
editIn 2001 Jiang provoked controversy on the internet. He initiated the "re-ponder the history, be concerned about the politics, commiserate with the public" mindset and proposed the theory of "thoughts of public" and "thoughts of imagination". His topics involved the June Fourth Democratic Movement, the public view of politics in China, and other sensitive questions. He was one of the first to propose such touchy questions in China. Chinese poets took an active part in this controversy, but because of his strong and growing influence, Jiang was blocked from Internet usage by Chinese government officials in 2004.[citation needed]
Google block
editOn September 16, 2004, American Dynamic Internet issued a research report focusing on Jiang,[3] revealing that Jiang was blocked by the Google search engine.[4][5][6][7][8][9][10] The same day, Yisha and Shaojun Li, two authors who had argued with Jiang, were presented an annual prize in the Chinese "New Poetry" sub-culture.[11][12]
Because Google broke its promise of "Don't be evil", the matter attracted international attention. The United States Congress and Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, held hearings on the subject. On April 14, 2005, Jiang was nominated for "The President Culture Prize" in Taiwan.
Jiang testified and supported the American Congressional hearing on the internet blockage behavior of Google, Yahoo, Cisco and Microsoft on February 15, 2006. He accepted interviews with over 10 news outlets, including the Associated Press, Yomiuri Shimbun, and the Central News Agency of Taiwan.[13]
International Fast
editOn March 5, 2006, Jiang, along with others, including Jinsheng Wei, Hongbing Yuan and Xue Sheng, launched an international fast, which included ten thousand people, to express support for individuals persecuted by the Chinese government. Jiang organized and presided over another Chinese protest in Los Angeles for similar reasons.
Notes
edit- ^ New Tang Dynasty Television: A Cry for Chinese People to Stand Up "Collection of Jiang Pinchao".
- ^ This event was one of the important serious cases in that year's Civil Right Record. The Human Rights Organization of the United Nations sent a solemn and just negotiation to Chinese government "UN Commission on Human Rights - Torture - Special Rapporteur's Report (Jan 95)". hrlibrary.umn.edu.
- ^ The original website of the research report on Pinchao Jiang's being blockage by Google[where?]. The report was done by Dynamitic Internet on September 16, 2004. This report aroused long time and widespread attention in the international society:http://dit-inc.us/2004091601.html "Google Chinese news censorship demonstrated". Archived from the original on 2007-10-13. Retrieved 2007-10-17.
- ^ <Gazeta.pl Wiadomosci>, the most famous newspaper in Poland, reported the blockage of Google on September 20, 2004: <Pekin cenzuruje Google>[1]
- ^ "【事来出の日今】蔵溜古雲 年六十成平". www.ne.jp.
- ^ The report of the blockage of Google in Asahi Shimbun News: [2] Archived 2005-05-25 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "CNN.com - Google bows to Chinese censorship - Sep 27, 2004". CNN. Archived from the original on 2004-10-11. Retrieved 2007-10-17.
- ^ English media which refers to this article in CNN: [3] [dead link]
- ^ The explanation of Google to the blockage affair under the pressure of widespread public voice on September 21, 2004: [4] Archived 2008-10-07 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Comment in "the secret of China" on June 2, 2006: spokesman of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs cannot deny that Chinese communist party control and censor the internet [5] Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ subject report of Chinese Poem Life on the first biannual poem exhibition Tomorrow Eerguna: "首届"明天·额尔古纳"中国诗歌双年展". Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2007-10-17.
- ^ Shaojun Li's article of Characteristics of Grass Root Class and the Transfer of New Poem Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine in the Chinese Internet journal Poem Life:
- ^ "米亡命の中国詩人がGoogleなどに抗議、ハンスト開始". ぶら～りネット探訪. Special report by Sheng Lu, the report of Central News Agency of Taiwan in Los Angeles "RtiNewsIndex". Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-10-17.