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Although
China Digital Times reports:
"The front cover of the December
12th Southern Metropolis Daily
featured a headline, '2010 Asian Para Games Are Ready to Start Tonight in
Meanwhile, according to Danwei, microblog users have been describing other famous Lius they admire in terms that evoke Liu Xiaobo himself:
From @wentommy
(文涛):
The person I most admire has the surname Liu. Despite a prison term, this
wonderful individual has won all kinds of international awards, and is an idol
to many people. Her name is Liu Xiaoqing (刘晓庆).
Unfortunately, until information officials relax their controls, references like these will resonate only for people knowledgeable enough to circumvent Internet censorship in the first place.
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In the history of feudal China and even during the time of the Great Cultural Revolution in 1960s and 1970s, something people spoke or wrote could be interpreted as something completely irrelevant, which frequently led to vicious convictions against innocent people. If we disagree with that part of history, can we make similar interpretation of this front page picture above just believing it's done with good wishes?