Confucius Peace Prize

Confucius Peace Prize
Awarded forPromotion of world peace from an Eastern, Confucian perspective[1]
DateDecember 9, 2010 (2010-12-09)
CountryPeople's Republic of China
Presented byPrivate committee
First awarded2010
Last awarded2017
Confucius Peace Prize
Traditional Chinese孔子和平獎
Simplified Chinese孔子和平奖

The Confucius Peace Prize (simplified Chinese: 孔子和平奖; traditional Chinese: 孔子和平獎; pinyin: Kǒngzǐ Hépíngjiǎng) was a Chinese alternative to the Nobel Peace Prize established in 2010 by the Association of Chinese Indigenous Arts[2] in the People's Republic of China (PRC). The prize was created in response to a proposal by businessman Liu Zhiqin that criticized the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, which was awarded to Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo. The chairman of the committee said that the award existed to "promote world peace from an Eastern perspective", and Confucian peace specifically.[1] The original cash prize given to the winner in 2010 was ¥100,000 RMB (US$15,000).[3]

Despite an attempt by China's Ministry of Culture to ban the prize[4][5][6] in September 2011, the original organizers re-established in Hong Kong as the "China International Peace Research Center", awarding the prize to Vladimir Putin in November 2011,[7][8][9] to Kofi Annan and Yuan Longping in 2012,[10] to Fidel Castro in 2014,[11] to Robert Mugabe in 2015,[12] and Hun Sen in 2017. The Chinese government has denied having any connections with the prize.[13] The Prize Committee has been disbanded since 2018.

  1. ^ a b Jiang, Steven (2010-12-08). "China to hand out its own peace prize". CNN. Retrieved 2010-12-08.
  2. ^ "简讯:中国官方"否认设立孔子和平奖"". BBC News 中文.
  3. ^ Branigan, Tania (9 December 2010). "China's Confucius peace prize has chaotic launch as winner's office says he was not notified". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 December 2019.
  4. ^ Moore, Malcolm (September 29, 2011). "Confusion as Confucius Prize scrapped". The Telegraph. Retrieved October 4, 2011.
  5. ^ "Zimbabwean President condemned by West is selected for Chinese peace prize". The founding committee had tenuous ties to the Chinese Ministry of Culture, but a split in the committee prompted the ministry to try to ban the prize in 2011. A rival group tried to award an alternative honour — the Confucius World Peace Prize — but that effort was called off. Mr Qiao said he registered his prize's committee in Hong Kong, under the name China International Peace Research Center, and in Beijing, under the name Beijing Heweigui Culture Media Co, to keep the award going after the ministry tried to quash it in 2011.
  6. ^ ""孔子世界和平奖"启动". 联合早报. 2011-10-07. Retrieved 2015-10-23.
  7. ^ 关于停止中国乡土艺术协会传统文化保护部主办"第二届孔子和平奖"颁奖活动和撤销中国乡土艺术协会传统文化保护部的决定 (in Chinese). Chinese Ministary of Culture. September 27, 2011. Archived from the original on 2011-10-27. Retrieved October 4, 2011.
  8. ^ "Ministry of Culture disbands organisers of Confucius Peace Prize". Shanghaiist. Retrieved October 4, 2011.
  9. ^ "In China, Confucius Prize Awarded to Putin". The New York Times. November 15, 2011. Retrieved November 15, 2011.
  10. ^ Li, Raymond (2012-11-06). "Annan, agriculture scientist win Confucius Peace Prize". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 15 April 2013.
  11. ^ "Fidel Castro Awarded China's Confucius Peace Prize". NPR. 11 December 2014.
  12. ^ Richard Macauley. "Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe is the latest strongman to win China's Confucius Peace Prize". Quartz.
  13. ^ 中國否認頒「孔子和平獎」 Archived 2014-12-11 at the Wayback Machine 台灣《聯合報》

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