李敖Li Ao, Writer and Political Firebrand in Taiwan, Dies at 82：去遠行； 長腦瘤，標靶藥物與放射療法；壓根就反3代接班；2010 0915 陽痿美國 在台灣陽痿了!

Li Ao, Writer and Political Firebrand in Taiwan, Dies at 82




Li Ao sprayed a cannister of tear gas in Taiwan’s legislature in 2006 to protest a proposed multibillion-dollar weapons purchase from the United States.Credit...Associated Press


By Amy Qin
March 26, 2018


Li Ao, a Taiwanese writer and politician whose fiery anti-establishment polemics, provocative antics and unwavering support for reunification with mainland China made him one of Taiwan’s most recognizable, if divisive, public figures, died on March 18 in Taipei, the capital. He was 82.

The Taipei Veterans General Hospital, where he died, said the cause was brain cancer.

Mr. Li was known affectionately as the “madman” of Taiwan’s literary and political circles — a man who vigorously defended freedom of speech and rarely missed an opportunity to exercise that freedom, even when it was denied to him by the government.

He wrote more than 100 books, mostly about history and politics, and more than 90 of them were banned by the authorities during Taiwan’s long decades of martial law, which ended in 1987.

He also had broad popular appeal as the host of several political talk shows, cementing his fame on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.

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“There is nobody in history who has done more to fight for the freedom of speech than Li Ao,” he once boasted in a speech.

Mr. Li was a perpetual rebel and relished confrontation, taking aim over the years at Taiwanese leaders, celebrities and intellectuals. He called the Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, for example, a “dictator,” President Lee Teng-hui an “unfaithful political turncoat” and the exiled poet Yu Guangzhong, who died in December, a “bootlicking poet.”


In his later years he dabbled in politics, even running for president in 2000.

In interviews, Mr. Li spoke often about his admiration for beautiful women and the politically liberal early 20th-century Chinese philosopher Hu Shih.




ImageMr. Li at a news conference in Hong Kong during a tour of China in 2005. His unwavering support for Taiwan’s eventual reunification with mainland China made him one of the most recognizable, if divisive, public figures at home.Credit...Vincent Yu/Associated Press


“Li Ao was a writer who had the courage to challenge the system and fight against authority,” Tsai Ing-wen, Taiwan’s president, wrote in a post on Facebook. “His passing also represents the passing of an era. The authority he challenged has already become history. The freedom he desired in his writings has become a way of life in Taiwan.”



Li Ao was born on April 25, 1935, in Harbin in what was then the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo. His father, Li Dingyi, was an educator and school principal who had eight children — six daughters and two sons — with Mr. Li’s mother, Zhang Kuichen.

When Li Ao was 2, the family moved to Beijing, where his father took a position in an opium-suppression bureau. In a memoir, published in 1998, Mr. Li recalled an incident in which his father was accused by his superiors of being a traitor to the party. Though his father’s name was later cleared, it was Mr. Li’s first taste of what would become a lifelong loathing for the Kuomintang, or Chinese Nationalist Party.

“To be patriotic, you must follow the Kuomintang, and only the Kuomintang, forever,” Mr. Li wrote. “Regardless of how many contributions you may have made, the party is benevolent simply for not calling you a ‘traitor.’ This is a lesson my father learned painfully.”

Following the victory of the Communists over the Kuomintang in 1949, a teenage Mr. Li and his family joined the wave of defeated Nationalists retreating to Taiwan. Not long after, he began to make his name as a writer while he was a student at National Taiwan University.

In 1961, Mr. Li, then 26, had graduated and completed a brief stint in the Taiwanese military when he began writing for a popular, liberal literary magazine called Wen Hsing, or Apollo.

At the time, Taiwan was more than a decade into a nearly 40-year period of political repression known as the White Terror, during which the Kuomintang imposed authoritarian rule and arrested and tortured tens of thousands of Taiwanese accused of spying for Communist China. At least 1,000 were executed.

Despite the immense pressures on intellectuals, the young Mr. Li emerged as a rare voice of dissent, railing against traditional Chinese culture and the Kuomintang government while advocating for the adoption of Western cultural values like liberalism and democracy. Under Mr. Li’s editorship, Apollo became one of the most influential reformist magazines in Taiwan.



In 1965, Mr. Li made a daring decision to publish an essay in Apollo lambasting the Kuomintang propaganda chief. In response, the government shut down the publication.




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Mr. Li, who was known for his provocative antics, brandished a photograph of himself, naked, during a protest at parliament in Taipei in 2006.Credit...Sam Yeh/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images


“Li Ao was one of the first people in Taiwan to really speak out against the Kuomintang,” said Chen Fang-ming, chairman of the Graduate Institute of Taiwanese Literature at National Chengchi University. “He helped foster the spirit of resistance in my generation. In the 1960s, before there were any movements outside the party, Li Ao — one man with a pen — helped pave the way for a new era.”

In 1971, Mr. Li was arrested and charged with helping Peng Ming-min, a prominent dissident who advocated for Taiwanese independence, flee the country. After a court found Mr. Li guilty of attempting to subvert the government, he spent five years in prison, and his case drew wide international attention.

With Taiwan’s transition toward democracy and freedom of speech in the late 1980s, the ban on Mr. Li’s books was lifted. Soon after, dissenting voices like his were no longer so rare.

In his later years, Mr. Li was often criticized at home for supporting the reunification of Taiwan and mainland China. In 2000, he ran for president on a platform of reunification, openly calling for “one country, two systems,” but received only 0.13 percent of the vote.

In 2004, Mr. Li, then 69, was elected to Taiwan’s legislature as an independent candidate. He often used the office as a bullhorn for his rabble-rousing anti-establishment positions. In one of a series of incidents in 2006, Mr. Li — clad in a mask and wielding a stun gun — discharged a canister of tear gas during a legislative committee meeting in an effort to block a debate on a deal to purchase arms from the United States.


“I am an old man and I can risk my life,” said Mr. Li said at the time. “See who dares to pass the bill.”

In 1980, Mr. Li was briefly married to the Taiwanese actress Terry Hu. In 1992, he married Wang Chih-hui. He is survived by Ms. Wang; their children, Lee Kan and Lee Chen; as well as a daughter, Li Wen, from a previous relationship.

Though many at home disagreed with his pro-mainland positions, Mr. Li’s deep disdain for the establishment often extended to the Chinese Communist Party. This was evident in 2005 when, in a speech before a packed auditorium of teachers and students at Peking University in Beijing, Mr. Li boldly criticized Chinese leaders for suppressing freedom of speech.

“All over the world leaders have machine guns and tanks,” Mr. Li said. “So I’m telling you that in the pursuit of freedom, you have to be smart. You have to use your cunning.”



Karoline Kan contributed research.

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溫紳

《紐約時報》在李敖被國民黨抓進政治黑牢後，曾發特稿形容他是「台灣知名的歷史
學者與作家」「以寫諷世文章知名於世」
（a popular young writer)(well known for his satirical s essays)⋯辭世後，又以整版1/3
大篇幅「蓋棺論定」！這在台灣極其罕見～

 酲，遠行，【然後就去遠行】 李敖

書房到處是書；李先生的情詩集，一直在顯眼的地方，月前引用，來不及收。約1小時前，聽到李先生去遠行了，就用這首，送他。

【然後就去遠行】 李敖
(1981.1.23，可能在監獄中)

花開可要欣賞，
然後就去遠行。
唯有不等花謝，
才能記得花紅。

有酒可要滿飲，
然後就去遠行。
唯有不等大醉，
才能覺得微酲。

有情可要戀愛，
然後就去遠行。
唯有戀得短暫，
才能愛得永恒。

酲

酒後身體不適或神智不清。

【例】宿酲

ㄧ路好走⋯真難以置信！「文化頑童」向世人揮手*

李敖上午10時59分過世 享壽83歲 - 政治 - 自由時報電子報

83歲政治評論家李敖今天上午10時59分仙逝，享壽83歲，家屬透過台北榮總醫院發布過世的新聞稿，指李敖安詳離世。家屬透過北榮發布新聞稿

M.LTN.COM.TW

2017.2.7
昨天從溫先生的fb知道李敖先生的病情：事實上，李敖拒絕81歲慶生會，我就懷疑......

【葉文正、蔡維歆╱台北報導】李敖昨受訪透露長腦瘤，表示「壽命剩三年」，震驚各界。經紀人鄭乃嘉昨表示：「是良性瘤，已看過榮總、北醫、台大三家醫院，三家意見各不相同，目前仍在檢查與評估中，還沒做任何治療，壽命剩三年是他自己說的。他雖八十二歲（實歲八十一歲），但記憶力還比我好，真的受不了他老是這樣嚇人，然後我就得不斷澄清。」稍晚他再透露，李敖昨起在北醫進行為期二十八天的標靶藥物與放射療法，「但不必住院，仍可正常工作。」

李敖昨接受《聯合報》訪問表示，醫生說他僅剩三年可活，報導指稱是惡性腦瘤，上周起已接受電療與標靶藥物治療。 

醫界罕見膠質瘤

《蘋果》求證與李敖長期合作的經紀人鄭乃嘉，他澄清是腫瘤是良性，但是罕見的膠質瘤，「榮總北醫都沒見過此種病例，目前北醫由院長（陳瑞杰）組成醫療小組為他治療。過去兩年，這個瘤只有米粒大，現在大了兩倍，才決定進行二十八天的治療。」 

自稱說話有困難

但他坦言，李敖的確有其他小毛病，除了腿無力，李敖還自述吞嚥有問題，導致說話不方便。鄭乃嘉說：「不過我們覺得可能是心理問題，因為我們看他說話都很正常。」醫生也沒確認是腦瘤影響，反而比較擔心李敖這腦瘤會導致小中風，「才是堪慮之處」。 

陳文茜：佩服他

知道李敖健康狀況的人不多，好友陳文茜原本表示不方便談論，但稍晚回應：「腦部腫瘤即使是良性，只要長大，還是會壓迫生命中樞，所以李敖目前治療方法比照惡性腫瘤，吃標靶藥物。如果惡性，往往只有半年壽命。」陳文茜續強調，李敖的病況應該由醫療團隊説明，「我做為朋友，只能關心他，佩服他面對疾病的勇氣。」
鄭乃嘉表示，李敖正在整理《李敖大全集》，他的微博有一千多萬粉絲，「中國騰訊等網站想做李大師直播，考慮到他年紀，可能會改錄播」。他也和李敖商量做文創事業，把李敖書房搬到外面，在同一個地方挪出空間錄影，既可賺錢，也能留下具有紀念價值的東西給子孫。 

李敖81歲

出生：1935年4月25日
學歷：台大歷史研究所肄業
經歷：
．曾2次入獄
．2000年代表新黨參選總統失利
．2004年以無黨籍身分當選北市立委
．2006年參選台北市長落選
．2011年代表親民黨選北市立委落敗
健康
2003/8發現罹攝護腺癌第二期
2015/11/9因感冒肺炎住院
感情╱婚姻
．與前女友，即作家王尚義胞妹王尚勤生下長女李文
．1980年和女星胡因夢結婚，3個月又22天即離婚
．1992年與小30歲的王小屯再婚，育有兒子李戡、女兒李湛
著作
．《李敖回憶錄》、《李敖快意恩仇錄》、《李敖大全集》等百餘本，其中有96本曾被列為禁書
資料來源：《蘋果》資料室 

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作家李敖日前接受節目專訪，評兩名台北市長候選人柯文哲及連勝文，一個是笨蛋，一個是壞蛋，引發熱議。但在網路及通訊軟體LINE上，熱傳李敖遭竄改的說法，將李敖對兩人的評價對調，並寫道「票請投傻蛋連勝文，因為總有一天他會變聰明的」。對此遭到竄改的說法，李敖今天在臉書PO文駁斥「全是捏造的」。

針對言論遭到竄改，李敖在臉書說道「事實上並沒這樣說，全是捏照的」、「捏造者打著我的旗號，想一脈相連，其實我（李敖）壓根就反3代接班」，還將連家與蔣（蔣介石）家、中國毛（毛澤東）家做對比，說「連家 3 代在台灣烏雲蓋頂，與金家三代在朝鮮何異？蔣家毛家都政不過3代，你們又算老幾」。（隋昊志／綜合報導）2014.11.24

2010他的新書 陽痿美國 ，在台灣陽痿了!
網路報導的多為中國網站


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「花風暴」危及台北市長郝龍斌連任之路，副市長李永萍閃電辭職。對此，身為李永萍好友的李敖，直言她不應該淌這個渾水，被砍掉是罪有應得。李敖甚至直言國 民黨五都選舉，恐丟掉四都寶座。李敖說：「第一個他們不該激走李永萍，李永萍根本不該幹，好好的人，為什麼當副市長、當文化局局長，這是錯的！好女孩不該從政。」他甚至直言國民黨五都選 舉，除了台中還好，另外四都恐怕都很危險。
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〔本報訊〕花風暴延燒，台北市長郝龍斌急打火，批准前副市長李永萍閃電請辭，對此，李敖作家今(15)日發表高見，表示李永萍根本不應該從政，下台是「罪 有應得」；此外，李敖更大膽預測，藍營5都選舉僅有台中最穩，其餘4都全部岌岌可危。

　郝龍斌為了止血，前(13)日召開記者會宣布批准李永萍的閃電請辭，不過，李敖卻認為李永萍下台的止血效果不大，並且表示李永萍下台完全是罪有應得。

　至於5都選情，李敖對於藍營也不看好，認為藍營僅有台中贏面最大，「第一個他們不該激走李永萍，李永萍根本不該幹，好好的人，為什麼去當副市長？錯的！ 當文化局局長，錯的！」言下之意，對於李永萍其實是惋惜。

　李敖言語之辛辣是出了名，罵起新北市長參選人朱立倫也毫不留情，「台北縣朱立倫那個不死不活的樣子，也很討厭。」他快人快語表示，藍營5都選舉鐵定會輸 掉4都。