Wei Jingsheng Foundation News and Article Release Issue: A1120-W752

魏京生基金会新闻与文章发布号：A1120-W752

Release Date: June 30, 2018

发布日：2018年6月30日

Topic: Wei Jingsheng, Wu Zuolai, and Deng Yuwen Invited to Attend Radio Free Asia's China Live Program: Fifty Years of "Going To the Mountains and the Countryside," Does China Need a New Round of Ideological Liberation?

标题：魏京生、吴祚来、邓聿文参加自由亚洲电台中国热评节目："上山下乡"运动五十年,中国需要新一轮思想解放吗？（自由亚洲电台）

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Wei Jingsheng, Wu Zuolai, and Deng Yuwen Invited to Attend Radio Free Asia's China Live Program: Fifty Years of "Going To the Mountains and the Countryside," Does China Need a New Round of Ideological Liberation?

Published on June 29, 2018

On June 29, 2018, Wei Jingsheng, Chairman of the Overseas Chinese Democracy Coalition, was invited to participate in a discussion on the China Live program hosted by Radio Free Asia's He Ping. The main subjects of the program were: Fifty years of "going to the mountains and the countryside" and does China need a new round of ideological liberation? Other guests participating in the program included: Wu Zuolai, a scholar and columnist in the United States; and Deng Yuwen, an independent scholar in China. The following is a brief introduction by Radio Free Asia at the beginning of the program.

Starting in the 1950s, the educated youth's "going to the mountains and the countryside" movement was part of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. It has been 50 years now. The decentralization movement involved tens of millions of junior high and high school graduates in the cities being sent to the contryside. Afterwards, it has been beautified as "the spirit of the educated youth" and "Youth with no regrets" by the official literary and artistic works. However, in China today, do we really have the answers regarding the turbulence of the Cultural Revolution and the class divisions by their composition, i.e. the so-called three major differences between "worker and peasant, urban and rural, and physical and mental labor"? Although Xi Jinping, who is also known as an educated youth, has achieved the strength of "leading everything", the Communist Party has once again resorted to Marxism to seek Chinese "characteristics" for the dictatorship. Facing civil rights defenders, ethnic conflicts, and the upcoming US-China trade confrontation, does the Chinese society need a new round of ideological emancipation? How far is democracy and the rule of law from China? These are the topics that are explored in this program.

This video interview is located at the RFA website:

http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/

Youtube video could be viewed at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f2F99B0F5g

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Wei Jingsheng Foundation News and Article Release Issue: A1120-W752

魏京生基金会新闻与文章发布号：A1120-W752

Release Date: June 30, 2018

发布日：2018年6月30日

标题：魏京生、吴祚来、邓聿文参加自由亚洲电台中国热评节目："上山下乡"运动五十年,中国需要新一轮思想解放吗？（自由亚洲电台）

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魏京生、吴祚来、邓聿文参加自由亚洲电台中国热评节目：

"上山下乡"运动五十年中国需要新一轮思想解放吗？

Published on June 29, 2018

2018年6月29日，中国民主运动海外联席会议主席魏京生先生参加自由亚洲电台何平主持的中国热评节目：""上山下乡"运动五十年中国需要新一轮思想解放吗？"同时参加评论的嘉宾还有旅美学者、专栏作家吴祚来，及中国独立学者邓聿文。以下为自由亚洲电台的片头介绍。

起始于上世纪五十年代，作为中国文化大革命组成部分的知青"上山下乡"运动，至今已整整五十年。这场涉及数以千万新、老三届初高中毕业生的下放运动，虽被官方文艺作品在事后美化成了"知青精神"、"青春无悔"，但究竟文革动乱、阶级成分划分、所谓的"工农、城乡和体脑力劳动"等三大差别，对于今天的中国来说，是否真的有了答案？同样知青出身的习近平虽已实现了"领导一切"的强势，共产党更再次借助马克思主义为独裁专制寻找中国"特色"，但面对公民维权、民族矛盾，以及即将到来的美中贸易对峙，中国社会是否需要新一轮思想解放？民主与法治又究竟距离中国还有多远？这次节目就是探讨这些话题。

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Youtube视频网页:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f2F99B0F5g

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