成龙本周在接受广州《南方人物周刊》(Southern People
Weekly)采访时说,香港现在变成了“游行之都”。虽然香港并非是一个完全民主的社会,这个前英国殖民地却以其大量的示威游行而闻名,这些示威包括每
年7月1日要求民主的示威游行。据这次游行的组织者说,有40万人参加了今年的游行。此外,香港几乎每天都会有各种小规模的游行,示威者的诉求五花八门,
涉及诸多议题。
Jackie Chan may be best known for his
action-packed films and famed ability to mix martial arts and comedy.
But many in his hometown and elsewhere are less than amused by the
actor’s latest effort: an interview in which he said Hong Kong should
have more restrictions on its lively protest scene.
In an interview this week with the Guangzhou-based Southern People
Weekly, Mr. Chan said Hong Kong had become a “city of protest.” While
not fully democratic, the former British colony is famous for its
numerous demonstrations, including the annual July 1 pro-democracy march
that organizers said attracted 400,000 participants this year, as well
as smaller, near-daily protests spanning a wide range of issues.
“People scold China, they scold leaders, or anything else they like.
They protest against everything,” said Mr. Chan. “There should be rules
to determine what people can protest about and on what issues they can’t
protest about.”
Locals in Hong Kong took umbrage with his comments and pan-democrats and
political scientists immediately criticized the action star. In the
city’s Wan Chai district, a retired woman in her 70s, Lin Chun-yong,
said she demonstrates weekly on behalf of in support of Falun Gong, a
spiritual practice that is banned in China. She said Mr. Chan should
stick to beating up bad guys, not weighing in on politics.
“Unlike the mainland, Hong Kong is very free, which is a good thing,”
Ms. Lin said. “We have to protest to get journalists’ attention, and
sometimes we can’t get journalists’ attention and so we also have to
protest.”
Other recent comments by Mr. Chan, who was a martial arts movie idol in
Hong Kong before moving on to star turns in Hollywood blockbusters, also
failed to endear him to the public. In 2009 at the Boao Forum for Asia
in China’s Hainan Province, in reply to a question about mainland
censorship of filming, Mr. Chan said, “I don’t know whether it’s better
to have freedom or to have no freedom. With too much freedom, it can get
very chaotic.” He also said that Chinese people “need to be
controlled,” sparking fury from Hong Kong and elsewhere. Mr. Chan later
said the remarks had been taken out of context.
Efforts to reach Mr. Chan through his publicist weren’t successful.
In this week’s interview, Mr. Chan also reflected at length on Hong
Kong’s time as a British colony before it returned to Chinese control in
1997. “Under the British, it wasn’t that free. Would you hear so much
gossipy news then? Would you see so many protests on the street? No. The
city was very well-behaved. British people really suppressed us,” said
Mr. Chan.
“We don’t like to be suppressed, we like freedom,” he said. “But you can’t do whatever you like.”