Chapter 118 The Writing Period, Happiness and Enmity
After Li Ao was released from prison, he persevered and pursued Xiao Mengneng. At that time, the case had been closed due to political factors, and the judges were able to make a judgment in accordance with the law, and Xiao Mengneng, who falsely accused Li Ao, was imprisoned twice because he lost his political backing. Fearful of sin and dying in a foreign land.
The most confession in Xiao Mengneng's transcript is that he "admitted his suspicions and apologized to his old friend Li Ao" (although there is no specific evidence to prove whether the signature of his confession is true or not), and the embezzlement case finally proved that Xiao Mengneng falsely accused Li Ao.
Since Xiao Mengneng failed to claim incidental civil compensation against Li Ao when he won the lawsuit, since then, the property with a market value of more than 20 million entrusted by Xiao Mengneng to Li Ao to manage and pay off debts has been owned by Li Ao.
In the 1980s, Li Ao had become a well-known "non-party" political commentator in Taiwan, not only working with non-party figures to be active in the literary circles with magazine articles critical of current politics, in an attempt to challenge the Nationalist government's policy of restricting speech, but also collecting articles from non-party magazines and publishing a series of books criticizing the Kuomintang regime or telling history.
However, because it violated the "Publication Law" and other laws at the time, it was usually banned as a book. This period lasted for ten years, and Li Ao called it the "pen" period, and his main works were "Li Ao's Qianqiu Commentary Series" and "Long Live Commentary Series".
Li Ao's death was reported on April 1, 2013, April Fool's Day, but it was later confirmed that the death was a dog raised by his friend Chen Wenqian. and took advantage of this to appear on the show again two months later, but this move (with the oolong news from April Fool's Day two months ago to win the page and the death is still a dog) was considered by the villagers on PTT to be even rougher than the means of the little star to stir up scandals. And ridicule it.
During the cultural tour of China, he pointed out in his speeches at Peking University, Tsinghua University and Fudan University that China will truly make the country rich and strong. Support the "surgical" end to Tibet's "theocracy" and the construction of railways in Tibet to strengthen Tibet's ties with the central government. His book, The Complete Works of Li Ao, includes articles critical of Tibet's "theocratic rule."
In his program "Li Ao Has Something to Say" and in his speech at Peking University, he frankly admitted that the June 4 incident was an unfortunate event, but at the same time pointed out that similar practices have appeared many times in many countries in history, pointing out that many governments "do not allow the people to entrench themselves in Central Square" and that "any government is a bastard at this time", and especially cited the examples of the United States suppressing Vietnam War veterans in Washington Square and the killing of anti-Vietnam War college students by American soldiers at Kent University.
He pointed out that the practice at that time was due to the fear of the leaders of the "tandem" situation similar to the Cultural Revolution. The whole country will collapse because of it.
Li Ao: "I have been banned in Taiwan for 96 species. After the collapse of the Kuomintang, it did not ban it, and the Communist Party began to ban it. 」
Li Ao is currently a guest and chief commentator on a series of TV political discussion programs in Taiwan and Hong Kong, and has received mixed reactions to his views and comments.
Some people with deep nationalist complexes, egoistic and authoritarian thinking, and those who tend to take a political stance leaning towards red consider it "authoritative". And strongly agree with his remarks.
However, in the program he hosted, the words and deeds about the June 4 incident and favoritism attracted a lot of criticism.
Some netizens accused him of being a "political clown" for his stance. The attitude of turning against each other at any time. even alleged that Li Ao's repeated stance is like "Guo Moruo of the current generation".
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo also described Li Ao as a "united front toy".
Xiao Mengneng commented on Li and said: Talented but not virtuous.
Li Ao often calls himself a "master", but the famous cross talk actor Li Liqun has publicly stated that only "neurotics" will call themselves "masters".
Taiwanese writer and host Tsai Kangyong once commented on Li Ao on Weibo: In the process of Taiwanese society's gradual opening of people's wisdom. Mr. Li Ao was once deafening, and many people were influenced by him, and since then they have been more vigilant about bastards. This is the basis for my memory of him, and I would love to keep it that way, because it is such a beautiful and precious thing for any society to gradually open up the wisdom of the people.
Li Ao was arrogant and uninhibited on the outside, but those who came into contact with him privately said that he was unusually "humble and courteous".
Li Ao once said that he was "the top three vernacular literature in the past 500 years". Some people compare him with Lu Xun, but he thinks: "Lu Xun wrote "A Brief History of Chinese Novels" is good, but he has too many emotions, and after taking away the emotional language, he didn't expect it. 」)。
His penchant for ridicule and humor is also an important feature of Lee's literary style, such as quoting British Prime Minister Disraeli: "There are three kinds of lies in the world: lies, hateful lies, and statistics. But there are also doubts about Li Ao's true knowledge of statistics.
Literati Yang Zhao said, "Li Ao's English is not bad, but it is clear that he has little influence from modern Western literature. He was accustomed to a distrustful attitude towards modern philosophy and literature, and he knew that Eliot had determined that the novel could not be done after Flaubert and James, but he obviously did not know much about what the modern novel after Flaubert and James looked like and what tricks it played. (Li Ao and Literature)
Hu Shi once praised Li Ao for "knowing Hu Shizhi better than I, Hu Shizhi" (for Li Ao's "Starting from Reading Hu Shi's Wencun" published in "Free China"), but on the other hand, Hu Shi also thought that Li Ao (level) was not enough, not only did he not understand science, but also liked to "play by question", so there was no need to talk about him at all.
Hu Shi also took the opportunity to warn others that "borrowing topics to play" is the most taboo thing when making articles. (For Li Ao's "Hu Shi the Sower", see "Mr. Hu Shizhi's Conversation in His Later Years".)
Regarding Hu Shi's evaluation, Li Ao has commented, or self-explained, see "Li Ao's Happiness and Enmity" "Chronicles").
Wu Xianghui said in the book "Li Ao is Dead" that Li Ao carried out crazy revenge on Xiao Mengneng for many years, and in addition to repeatedly scandalizing and attacking in the article, Li Ao also accused Xiao Mengneng of as many as 35 civil and criminal cases in the name of himself, his brother (Li Fang), close friends, and others, so that Xiao had to find a lawyer to go to court twice in three days, and Xiao was also imprisoned twice because of Li Ao's accusations.
Hu Yinmeng gave a unique evaluation when talking about her ex-husband Li Ao: Li Ao lacks self-insight. In his "Dance of Death and Virgins - The Autobiography of Hu Yinmeng", he made a psychopathological analysis of Li Ao in his eyes:
1. Self-imprisonment and confinement. 2. Don't dare to be intimate, even for your wife. 3. Cleanliness, demanding, and nervousness. Fourth, cold fear. always wears a fur hat, saying that he is afraid that someone will plot against him. 5. Cuckold fear. 6. Hysteria.
Hu Yinmeng also mentioned the lawsuit between Li Ao and Xiao Mengneng in his autobiography, and Hu Yinmeng believed that Li Ao "only has money in his mind, and he can use any illegal means to make money for money". (For example, he could set up a high-powered telescope upstairs and see the construction unit on the opposite side cutting corners.) He knows a lot about engineering! And then he threatens to give him a house, otherwise he will report and expose them.
He can extort his benefactor, others cultivate him, treat him very well, and trust him to show him the company's accounts, but when he finds a mistake, he threatens to give him 1 million, otherwise he will report and expose other people's tax evasion. If others ignore him, he threatens to increase the price, two million. It's a way for him to make a living. )
According to Hu Yinmeng's own account, in Hu's eyes, Li was originally a humble and elegant character like Weng Shan Su Ji, "which girl doesn't love this kind of hero".
However, after actually getting along with Lee, it was found that Lee was a person with extremely strong lust and control, and his emotional handling ability was poor. (low EQ) thus created the impression that Hu was disillusioned with Lee. (To be continued......)