“欧洲汉学学会”向胡锦涛发公开信要求立即释放刘晓波
（维权网信息员 何晶报道）2010年1月15日，“欧洲汉学学会”（European Association for Chinese Studies，简称EACS）向中国国家主席胡锦涛发公开信，要求中国政府立即释放刘晓波。
代表了来自36个国家，800多名学者的“欧洲汉学学会”，成员大部分来自欧洲，致力于促进欧洲对中国的了解和推广。
这封公开信于1月22日发布在网站（http://www.eu-china.net/web/cms/front_content.php?idcat=4&idart=1273）上，下面是公开信的中、英文版本：
中华人民共和国
北京市西城区中南海
中华人民共和国主席
胡锦涛阁下
致中华人民共和国主席的公开信
2010年1月15日
尊敬的胡锦涛先生，
欧洲汉学学会由来自36个国家（主要是欧洲国家）的800多名学者组成，致力于了解和提升中国：古代文化，近期剧变，以及中国在全球舞台上的兴起。作为汉学家，我们尤其对与中国学者和学术机构改革开放以来的接触感到高兴。欧洲专家和中国同行之间的合作和学术交流为我们的研究带来了新的成果，同时也有助于在欧洲推广中国文化。
鉴于近年来中国在以上方面的正面发展，我们对2009年12月25日北京市第一中级人民法院以“煽动颠覆国家政权罪”判处刘晓波11年有期徒刑，深感失望和悲哀。刘晓波博士曾任北京师范大学中文系讲师，是中国文学和哲学领域的著名学者，在中文写作方面享有盛名。他的主要“罪行”是积极参与起草和传播《零八宪章》。该文件于2008年12月公诸于世。
细读《零八宪章》全文之后，我们确信，这份文件并没有倡导颠覆，而是讨论了对促成中国经济增长和现代化之间的和谐所必不可少的政治和社会改革，以及行政和法律制度中那些导致中国社会病态发展的因素。如果对《零八宪章》所提出的问题和解决方案，不去讨论，反而治罪，那么长远而言，这将妨碍国家的健康发展。
在我们看来，《零八宪章》旨在继续推动改革开放、倡导现代化、改善全体中国人民的生活，因此值得以“实事求是”的精神研究讨论。《零八宪章》提出“应该结束以言治罪”。这让人想起中国的古训，伟大的历史学家和人文学家司马迁司纪录如下：防民之口，甚于防水。
我们敦促阁下，再次斟酌您作为中国人民共和国最高领导人在这一问题上的立场，并利用您的权威，务必重新考虑刘晓波案件，释放刘晓波。我们相信您对中国和中国人民未来的辉煌充满诚意，因此坚信，对于我们的呼吁，您不会充耳不闻。
布伦希尔德·斯泰格尔（欧洲汉学学会主席）
EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR CHINESE STUDIES
His Excellency Hu Jintao
President of the People's Republic of China
Zhongnanhai, Xichengqu,
Beijing
People’s Republic of China
OPEN LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
January 15, 2010
Your Excellency,
The European Association for Chinese Studies represents more than 800 scholars from 36 countries, mostly in Europe, who dedicate their efforts to the understanding and promotion of China, its ancient culture, as well as its recent spectacular transformation and rise on the global scene. As sinologists we are particularly happy about the contacts we have established with scholars and scholarly institutions in China since the beginning of the policy of reform and opening up. Cooperation and academic exchange between specialists in Europe and China brings out new results in our work and also helps the promotion of Chinese culture in Europe in general.
Given all these positive developments in China in recent years, we are disappointed and saddened by the trial of Liu Xiaobo, who on December 25, 2009 was sentenced by No. 1 Intermediate People’s Court in Beijing to 11 years in prison on charges of “agitation activities aimed at subversion of the government”. Dr. Liu Xiaobo, former Beijing Normal University lecturer, is a well-known scholar in the field of Chinese literature and philosophy, and a renowned writer. His main “crime” was the active part he took in drafting and disseminating Charter 08, a document made public more than one year ago, in December 2008.
After careful scrutiny of the full text of Charter 08, we are convinced this document does not call for subversion, but for a discussion about political and social reforms indispensable for harmonization between the dazzling economic growth and modernization in China and those features in the administration and legal system which create unhealthy developments in Chinese society. If the problems and suggestions for their solution as they are outlined in Charter 08 are criminalized instead of discussed, they could in a long run impede the healthy development of the country.
In our view, Charter 08 aims at continuing the policies of reform and opening up, policies of modernization and improvement of life for all Chinese people, and as such it deserves to be studied and discussed in the spirit of “seeking truth from facts”. One of the things Charter 08 says is “we should end the practice of viewing words as crimes”. This reminds us of the ancient Chinese wisdom recorded from earlier sources by the great historian and humanist Sima Qian: “To block people’s mouth is worse than blocking a river”.
We urge you, your Excellency, to reconsider the official position of the highest leadership of the People’s Republic of China in this matter, and to use all your authority to ensure that Liu Xiaobo’s case will be reconsidered and he will be released. We rely on your genuine concern for the future glory of your country and the Chinese people, and strongly believe that our plea will not fall upon a deaf ear.
Brunhild Staiger (President, EACS)
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拉脱维亚里加大学将主办2010年欧洲汉学协会大会
2006年09月03日 09:50:11 来源：新华网
http://news.xinhuanet.com/overseas/2006-09/03/content_5041386.htm
新华网卢布尔雅那（斯洛文尼亚）９月２日电（记者何毅）在此间召开的第１６届欧洲汉学协会大会２日举行会员大会，决定由拉脱维亚的里加大学主办２０１０年欧洲汉学协会大会。
欧洲汉学协会理事会成员马蒂亚斯·里希特告诉记者，本次会员大会还进行了协会主席和理事会成员改选。现任欧洲汉学协会会长布伦希尔德·施泰格女士获连任，任期两年。新的理事会共有２４名成员，均来自不同的欧洲国家。
里希特说，与会者当天一致通过了建立会员资料数据库的决定。他表示，该数据库将建立每一位欧洲汉学协会会员的档案，其中包括个人情况简介、研究领域等，这将有助于欧洲汉学家加强交流与合作。
欧洲汉学协会于１９７５年在法国巴黎成立，次年举行首次大会。协会目前拥有注册会员逾７００人，已发展成欧洲最具影响力的汉学学术研究机构。欧洲汉学协会大会每两年举办一次，由欧洲设有汉学专业的大学轮流举办。本届大会由斯洛文尼亚卢布尔雅那大学主办，２００８年大会将在瑞典隆德大学举行。（完）
