A sad news has just come. The respected Mr. Li Ao passed away in Taipei at about 11 o'clock this morning at the age of 83. In recent days, statements from his family pointed out that Li Ao's condition has turned critical recently. Li Ao previously suffered from a brain tumor. In the middle of last year, he also contracted pneumonia due to reduced immunity and was admitted to the intensive care unit. But I never thought it would go so fast! It can be called a great loss to the literary world!
Mr. Li Ao is a thinker, a scholar of modern Chinese history, a critic of current affairs, a Taiwanese writer, a historian, a poet, and a master of liberalism and Chinese studies! His writing style is sharp and his criticism is strong, which is why everyone calls him: he uses cynicism to wake up the world, and he uses scolding to save the world! Nearly 96 of more than 100 works have been banned. He is sought after by Western media as "the most outstanding critic in modern China".
I vaguely remember what Ms. Chen Wenqian said: "I want to go back to the proud elder brother, but he has already ridden away on a white horse." Unexpectedly, this sentence is used today to make people so moved. I hope Li Ao My husband is still smiling happily and living comfortably in heaven, and he is still so graceful while riding a white horse! In fact, in February last year, Mr. Li Ao revealed to the public that he had a brain tumor and said that "he only has 3 years left to live." At that time, his agent also revealed that it was a benign tumor and was already being treated. Unexpectedly, he was only 5 years old. In March, it was reported that his pneumonia infection worsened due to his weakened immunity. He was once critically ill and was sent to the intensive care unit. His son was also urgently returned from the UK to take care of him. At that time, Mr. Li Ao's son Li Kan posted a photo with his father on Weibo in August. From the photo, it can be seen that at that time, Mr. Li Ao still had a tube inserted in his nose. Although he seemed to have lost a lot of weight, But he still smiled and looked at the camera. Li Kan also wrote in the accompanying text: "The best birthday gift I have received in 25 years: a recovered father. "
On February 1 this year, Mr. Li Ao An update was also posted on Weibo. At that time, Mr. Li Ao's Weibo excitedly revealed to netizens that the simplified version of "Li Ao's Autobiography" would be distributed nationwide by People's Literature Publishing House in mid-January!
At that time, when netizens saw Mr. Li Ao’s Weibo update, they excitedly said, “It’s great that the master is still alive.” However, they did not expect that in just one and a half months, such bad news would come, which is regrettable!
Mr. Li said in an interview with reporters in February last year that he had a brain tumor and thought he would die soon. During the phone interview, Li Ao's voice sounded cheerful, and Li Ao said that this was a "reflection of the past." In fact, after he learned that he had cancer, he revealed that he would cooperate with the media to launch a talk show " Goodbye Li Ao ", inviting family, friends and enemies to the show to say their final goodbyes to each other one by one, and for this I wrote a handwritten letter saying that I wanted to "witness the end of my life" through these videos.
[Li Ao’s handwritten letter]
To my family, friends, and enemies:
Hello, I am Li Ao, I am 83 years old this year. At the beginning of the year, I was diagnosed with a brain tumor and have just completed radiation therapy. Now I have to take six steroid pills a day, so my body has become like a battlefield. Recently, I was hospitalized for a second acute pneumonia infection. I am in pain, as if hell is not far away from me.
In my life, I have scolded many people and hurt many people; I have countless enemies and few friends. The doctor told me: You can live for up to three years. If you want to do anything, hurry up! I just want to say that in this last time, in addition to the goal of adding 41-85 copies of " Li Ao's Complete Works ", I just want to see my family, friends, and enemies again to say goodbye. You can I understand that this is the last meeting in our lives, "Goodbye Li Ao" and we will never see each other again after that.
Because this is the last meeting, I hope this meeting is sincere and frank. Not only how we met and understood each other, but also how we loved and killed each other.
To the guests, I will tell you the truth; I also want you to tell the truth to me. The speaker is not guilty and the listener is warned. Maybe we had a lot of cruel struggles before, but maybe we also had a lot of many good memories before; I hope that through this meeting, we will have no regrets or regrets. This is my promise to you, and it is also my promise to you. Looking forward to you.
For guests, no matter where you are, I will send you a handwritten invitation letter. I invite you to come to Taipei and come to my study. We can have a meal together and take a photo together. I will take you to see the cute cats. I will record our last meeting throughout the whole process. On the one hand, it will be reserved for you and me. Memorial, on the other hand, it also satisfies my selfishness: I have bid farewell to the mainland media for nearly 10 years, and I want to use these videos to let everyone see me again, get to know a different me again, and witness the end of my life.
Some netizens said : Li Ao is very powerful. He has read a lot of books and is very knowledgeable and informative. The most awesome thing about Li Ao is that he can seize opportunities, dance in chains, and convey knowledge and ideas through the cracks. In order to survive, to fight against Chiang Kai-shek and the literati, he did a lot of shameful things to ensure his financial freedom. But this does not prevent his writing from being much more nutritious than Han Han and others. If you see a person talking about resistance and you think he is really resisting, and if you see a person flattering you and you think he is weak, then I can only say that you have read so many books in vain.
