西诺：我是《习近平与他的情人们》的作者

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VOA Chinese, Feb 5, 2016.
www.voachinese.com/content/xinuo-xijinping-20160205/3179518.html

Quote:

"这本书 [《习近平与他的情人们》] 的作者不是我一个人，还有一位我的朋友，他不愿公开露面。这本书是一年半前由他牵头来写的。

"你不给我言论出版自由，我就有一种想恶心你的动机 * * * 李波被抓后我觉得共产党的手伸得太长了，我只是想告诉习近平，这本书的作者在北美，如果有什么看法，侵权也好，对你造成什么损失也好，你可以到北美法院来告我，我可以接受这样的审判，都无所谓。你不要连累这些人。他们是书商

"我在出版这本书的时候找过三家华人印刷厂，但他们都拒绝了，说不方便，显得很惊恐。他们知道这本书是桂民海的 [so I turned to the latter: 桂] * * * 另外，桂民海得到的素材比我们想象的多得多。因为可能会从不同的政治对手得到他们的料

"我要说，他们有可能回不来，再也不能回香港了。 * * * 我认为他们基本上是回不来了。这里涉及一个重要问题，一边一国两制，一边是桂民海和李波，两者谁轻谁重，中共一定知道。如果要保全一国两制，毁掉一两个人算什么？我就把这两人以非法经营罪判10年、20年，没问题啊，判了以后你们就在狱中慢慢熬吧，到一定时候就像徐明一样让你们死掉。只要他们不回到自由世界就没事。  但他们要是回来，他们一定会说出是怎么去大陆的。两个人都没有出境记录。李波的护照和回乡证还在家里，他怎么去的大陆，如果他说是被绑架去的，那么一国两制就荡然无存了，因为你越境执法，而且还不承认；第二，桂民海在泰国有入境记录，没有出境记录，我的朋友去查过。没有出境记录，人又在大陆，这个人怎么去的呢？你怎么解释。所以，它犯下两个不可饶恕的错误，第一是破坏一国两制，在香港绑架英国公民到大陆；第二个错你违反了国际法，把一个瑞典公民抓到大陆，你怎么承担？所以，把他们放在我的监狱里慢慢地折磨他们，甚至让他们消失，可能是当局的最好选择。

My comment:
(a) I read this last night, but had no access to Internet to post it here. Today, the date of the report is "Feb 6, 2016," though the URL retains "20160205."
(b) The quotations above are all remarks of 西诺 in the interview.

(c) In this VOA report, there is a summary prepared by the interviewer, a VOA reporter. The summary contains: "去年11月以来，桂民海等五人相继被失踪后，西诺决定将手中书稿出版。由于他的共同作者朋友反对，西诺在与其达成协议后以个人名义出版了该书。他表示，该书的纸质版即将上市 [not specifying when or where (Taiwan is most likely)]，电子版一度在谷歌网络书店上架，因其朋友反对而下架；现在他以个人名义再度上架。"
(i) As of now, the e-book:
西诺, 习近平与他的情人们. Uniepress Inc, Feb 2, 2016
https://play.google.com/store/books/details/西诺_习近平与他的情人们?id=cDx_CwAAQBAJ
("歌德那部 '阴谋与爱情' 这样的轻歌剧"
(ii) 《阴谋与爱情》 is NOT written by Goethe. See
Fiesco (play)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiesco_(play)
(full title: Die Verschwörung des Fiesco zu Genua, or Fiesco's Conspiracy at Genoa; the second full length drama written [in 1783] by the German playwright Friedrich Schiller [1759 – 1805]; "Genoa in 1547. * * * In the play Fiesco is himself unable to decide between republican and monarchic ideals, and almost gives in to the urging of his wife Leonore to give up his desire to rule in favor of love and conventional family life, but only almost")
(iii) German English dictionary:
* Verschwörung (noun feminine; plural: plural Verschwörungen): "conspiracy"
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Verschwörung
* I am clueless about "des."
* zu (preposition): "at, by, on <zu Hause at home>
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/zu

(d) The writer 西诺 for the past two days has been busy talking to media, perhaps with an aim to 敲山震虎. See
(i) Tom Phillips, Author Linked to Missing Hong Kong Publishers Calls on Beijing to Free Them; Writer Xi Nuo says five men should not be punished for his book about China’s president, which prompted a crackdown on publishers in Hong Kong. Guardian (US), Feb 4, 2016.
http://www.theguardian.com/world ... s-beijing-free-them

six consecutive paragraphs:

"Xi Nuo said he had completed his book on the president for Gui’s company in 2014. However, he claimed Gui decided not to publish after receiving a visit from a Chinese government agent.

"Last year Gui appears to have changed his mind.

"Before he was detained in December, Lee Bo told the Guardian he suspected his friend’s disappearance was connected to imminent plans to publish a mysterious and highly sensitive book.

"Those plans never materialised, with Gui vanishing from his holiday home in Thailand in mid-October, before the book could be released.

"However, a version of the salacious tome appeared online last month.

"Xi Nuo said he decided to publish the book online in order to challenge Beijing, adding: 'Why doesn’t the government come to New York and sue us?'

(ii) Juliana Liu, Hong Kong's Missing Booksellers and 'Banned' Xi Jinping Book. BBC, Feb 4, 2016
www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-35480229
("Ching Cheong 程翔 [born in 1949 in Guangzhou; a journalist with The Straits Times] believes one of the reasons the leadership is so eager to shut down the entire market is that political factions regularly leak information to publishers like Mr Gui to embarrass their rivals.  A faction loyal to former president Jiang Zemin is said to be feuding with the power base of the current president")

There is no need to read the rest of (d)(i) or (ii), because they are familiar.