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Jun 4, 1989 · "I Sit Here" was written in June 1995 when Liu Xiaobo was detained outside Beijing. What's notable is the "rain" in the last stanza which responds to the first poem Liu Xiaobo wrote for her in 1991 about himself being in the rain.
Dec 10, 2010 · The Nobel Peace Prize winner read this statement in a Chinese court in 2009 before he was sentenced to 11 years in prison for subversion. In his absence from the Nobel award ceremony Friday ...
After his release on 7 October 1999, Liu Xiaobo resumed his freelance writing. However, it was reported [ 65 ] that the government built a sentry station next to his home and his phone calls and internet connections were tapped.
Dec 23, 2009 · Written by 刘晓波. June 1989 was the major turning point in my 50 years on life’s road. Before that, I was a member of the first group of students after restoration of the college entrance ...
Oct 9, 2010 · After Liu’s first prison term ended in 1991, the Communist Party continued to chafe at his writings. He was placed under house arrest in 1995, then ordered to a labor camp for “reeducation.”
Jul 13, 2017 · PEN America honored Liu Xiaobo, one of China’s preeminent dissident writers and activists and a leading figure in the PEN movement internationally, with PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award.
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Jul 14, 2017 · The notes by the Nobel Peace Prize recipient, written before he died under police guard in China, are to accompany photographs by his wife, Liu Xia, who has been under house arrest.
