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Sep 28, 2017 · Liu Xiaobo, circa 1999; photograph by Liu Xia from her ‘Ugly Babies’ series. This text is the last thing that Liu Xiaobo, the literary critic, poet, and human rights activist, wrote. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010, two years after he was imprisoned for eleven years on suspicion of “inciting subversion of state power.”.
Jul 14, 2017 · Liu Xia, the wife of the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, with their photograph in her apartment in Beijing in 2012. Ng Han Guan/Associated Press. BEIJING — As Liu Xiaobo, China’s most ...
Oct 9, 2010 · Reporting from Beijing — Before he was anything else, a hunger striker or inmate, dissident or symbol, Liu Xiaobo was a bookish literature professor and an essayist desperate to be able to write ...
The New York Review of Books has published the last text written by poet and activist Liu Xiaobo, a devoted preface for a forthcoming photography collection by his wife, Liu Xia. "Although barely able to write, he managed to scribble this love note.
Jun 27, 2024 · The Martyrdom of Liu Xiaobo. China’s dissident writer was an exemplar of iconoclastic intellectual spirit, pursuing a more humane society despite state repression. A new biography draws the arc of his rebellion and untimely death. When Liu Xiaobo died in 2017, he had become China’s most fiercely principled and iconoclastic public voice.
Jul 13, 2017 · In 1977, Liu was admitted to the Department of Chinese Literature at Jilin University, where he created a poetry group known as "The Babies' Hearts" (Chi Zi Xin) with six schoolmates. He graduated with a B.A. in 1982, went on to study for an M.A. and a PhD degree from Beijing Normal University. He became a teacher, literary critic, writer ...
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On July 13, imprisoned Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo died of liver cancer, after long being denied appropriate medical treatment. A well-known essayist and poet, he was arrested just after the Tiananmen Square massacre for his support of the protesters. After spending a year and a half in prison, he continued his ...
