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Li Ao (李敖 pinyin Lǐ ?o) (born March 23, 1935), is a satirist, social commentator, historian, and politician in the Republic of China on Taiwan. With an ancestry in Wei County (濰縣), Shandong, or Fuyu County (扶餘縣), Jilin, Li was born in Harbin, China to Li Dingyi (李鼎彝), a professor of Chinese, and Chang Kuichen (張桂貞). The entire Li family, except for two children, moved to Taiwan in 1949. He is considered by some to be one of the best Chinese writers of our day, while others consider him a political opportunist who enjoys stiring up controversy for the sake of publicity. Li Ao was credited for his contribution to the democratic movement in Taiwan between 1960s and 1980s. In the 1960s, he was the editor-in-chief of Wenxing(文星), a magazine that promoted democracy and personal freedom. He was jailed by the Kuomintang government for more than eight years after helping a pro-Taiwan independence political prisoner, Peng Ming-min to escape to Japan in 1963. Ironically, Li Ao had a long history of being an advocate of reunification. Throughout the 1970s, Li Ao received much international attention for his imprisonment. He was highlighted by Amnesty International as one of the three most important political prisoners in Taiwan in 1974. After his release, Li Ao continued to publish magazines and newspapers, criticizing the government. 96 of his books were banned in Taiwan before 1991. In the 1980s he also sponsored numerous other anti-government magazines. His novel Mountaintop Love (《上山．上山．愛》), about a mother and daughter who fall in love with the same man, though several years apart, has solidified Li's status as a serious novelist. His the other novel, Martyrs' Shrine: The Story of the Reform Movement of 1898 in China (北京法源寺), about the beginning and the failure of the Hundred Days' Reform, was nominated by his university colleagues for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2000. Li also published his autobiography in 2001, revealing more than ten of his romances in the book. Li Ao strongly supports the idea of "One country, two systems" proposed by Deng Xiaoping. He believes that the Chinese reunification|unification of China is inevitable and at one point advocated immediate surrender. He thinks that if reunification came earlier, it would be more beneficial for Taiwan. This, in combination with his past as a political dissident and his humorous style, has made him a popular figure among supporters of Chinese reunification. Conversely, it has also made him an unpopular figure amongst supporters of Taiwan independence. Li participated in the ROC presidential election, 2000|presidential election in 2000 as candidate for the New Party (Taiwan)|New Party. Li usually takes the role as the political gadfly, and his campaign was largely symbolic. He took the election as an opportunity to "educate" the people in Taiwan. Both he and his party publicly encouraged people to vote for James Soong to the point of stating during the presidential debates that he was not planing to vote for himself and that people should vote for Soong. Since the 2000 presidential election, Li Ao has bitterly spoken against pro-independence Nobel laureate Yuan T. Lee, who publicly supported Chen Shui-bian. He has also criticized Lee Teng-hui for corruption. In October 2004 Li ran in the ROC legislative election, 2004|December 11 legislative election as an non-party candidate in the South Taipei constituency in which was subsequently elected in the last place. He took office on February 1. In 2005 Feb, Li held a press conference, accusing PFP leader, James Soong of having changed his opposition towards military weapons purchase from the United States under the influence from people with the Pro-American inclination, people with CIA background and arsenal traders who recieve kick-backs. Li threatened Soong that he will reveal the names of the people with CIA background, who was influencing Soong, to the general public unless Soong reverts to his previous opposition position.http://news.yam.com/bcc/politics/200502/20050224323150.html PFP legislators dismissed the accusation and responded that Li Ao should reveal his evidence to support his story.http://news.yam.com/bcc/politics/200502/20050224324480.html Li is interestingly known for generally appearing in public wearing a Fred Rogers-like cardigan sweater. He also has a habit of taking pictures of the audience at public events where the media is present since he believes that it is only fair to take pictures of the people who are taking pictures of him. He also revealed his reading room with pictures of nudity hang on the wall in an interview.http://news.yam.com/tvbs/politics/200502/20050224328978.html See also: Politics of Taiwan Category:1935 births Category:ROC politicians zh:李敖 This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Li Ao".
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