Transcribing the Past

    Shifu's gravestone. Photos courtesy of the Chinese Anarchist Front .   This notice first appeared in the Esperanto language journal La Ondo de Esperanto (The Esperanto Wave) in July 1915 and can be viewed online here .  Shifu was an influential Chinese pioneer of Anarchism. He changed his name on several occasions and was known as Shifu at the end of his life, though in English he's remembered under the name Liu Shifu. He was also an active Esperantist and used the pen name Sifo for Esperanto writings. I translated a short biography of his life earlier, which may help explain some points.  Sifo Shifu (Liu Shifu) the editor of the Esperanto and Chinese language weekly newspaper The Voice of the People, died in Shanghai from tuberculosis. We take some biographical details about Shifu from his publication's 23rd issue. Sifo was born in 1884 in Hongsang* in the province of Canton. He was an extraordinarily talented boy in his youth. At the age of fifteen, he ...

        Declaration    By the Central Board of the Bulgarian Esperantist Association.   Bulgarian Esperantists have just learnt of the invasion by the Chinese army into the territory of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam with great anger and indigination.  This insidious attack by fascist means shook all honest people throughout the world and has only brought joy to reactionaries. There is no evidence of any provocation by the Vietnamese people against Chinese territory. But there are other facts. They speak of China's relentless pressure on the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. This pressure began immediately after the total failue of US aggression in Vietnam. This pressure is exerted because of the ambitions of the Chinese party and state leadership to impose hegemony. China wishes to be supreme in South East Asia, and because of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam's allegiance to its socialist ideals, the socialist community, and the Sov...

  Link  https://youtu.be/cQqi_FA--ko Video info Even after 30 years... When you're ordered to forget, to remember becomes an act of defiance. Audio is from the History of China Podcast https://thehistoryofchina.wordpress.com/ The cable being read https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/UK_cable_on_Tiananmen_Square_Massacre Footage comes from In Remembrance of Tiananmen Square China 1989  https://archive.org/details/714698flower And Arthur Kent's Tiananmen Square Massacre: Black Night In June (2019) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA4iKSeijZI Text of the cable from  https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/UK_cable_on_Tiananmen_Square_Massacre https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/UK_cable_on_Tiananmen_Square_Massacre SECRET D E D I P UK COMMS ONLY FM PEKING TO DESKBY 051600Z FCO TELNO 1039 OF 051421Z JUNE 89 AND TO DESKBY 051600Z HONG KONG, JSIS HONG KONG, MODUK SIC U2b DESKBY 051600Z MODUK AND JSIS ⁠ HONG KONG. HONG KONG PERSONAL FOR GOVERNO...

  SIFO - Liu Shifu - (ĉine 劉師復) (1884-1915), estis ĉino, verkisto kaj la unua anarkiisto en Ĉinio. Li naskiĝis en 1884 en Kantono (Ĉinio), kaj mortis pro malriĉeco, neflegita dum la malsano la 27-an de marto 1915 en Ŝanhajo. De sia junaĝo li partoprenis politikan revolucion por renversi la Manchu-dinastion. Bombatencis Manchu admiralon en Kantono, 1907; malsukcesis; perdis sian maldekstran brakon; en malliberejo dum 3 jaroj. Multe verkis. Helpis sukcesigi la revolucion; rezignis altan ŝtatoficon; sin turnis por socia revolucio. Adepto de la doktrinoj de Tolstoj kaj Kropotkin. Fondis „Konsciencan Grupon“ kun vivreformaj principoj. (vegetara, senservista, senedzeca ktp). Esperantisto de 1912. Kunfondinto de Esperanto Asocio en Ŝanhajo. En 1913 eldonis ĉiusemajnan ĉinan Esperanto-gazeton „La Voĉo de la Popolo“. Fariĝis mem redaktoro, kompostisto kaj presisto kaj predikis anarkiistan komunismon. Vivo kaj agado Sifo estis influa figuro en la Ĉina revolucia movado frue en...

  La Angla Traduko The initial dissemination of Esperanto is characterised with tight links with anarchism, and for that reason some believed that the ideal of the Esperanto speakers is anarchism. Anarchism was founded in France and Germany during the 1840s, and appeared as Stirnerian anarchism[1] and Proudhonian social anarchism[2]. Later in Russia flourished the Collectivist Anarchism of Bakunin[3], and Anarchist-communism and anarcho-syndicalism of Kropotkin[4]. The doctrines they propagated were very diverse. Apart for scientific socialism there were many diverse types of socialism at the time[5]. Such isms greatly influenced intellectuals and types of workers. A group of Chinese students in Japan and Europe, including progressive young people like Ba Jin for example accepted the influence of Anarchism. The Chinese anarchists combined anarchism with Confucianism[6] and the doctrine of Kang Youwei[7] about the "great harmony" and "common harmonious circle"...