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Sep 28, 2017 · The Ms. G. referred to in Liu’s text was a close friend of his wife, Liu Xia. Ms. G. had asked Liu to contribute a preface to his wife’s forthcoming book of photographs, Accompanying Liu Xiaobo. 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. Orville Schell — June 27, 2024. Politics Society.
Oct 9, 2010 · “ One letter is enough / For me to transcend / And face you to speak,” he wrote in a poem from prison. His unwavering conviction that no authority could permanently block the natural human...
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.
Jan 15, 2009 · It is through our poetry that we became acquainted and eventually fell in love. Six years later, the unprecedented student democratic movement and massacre occurred in Beijing. Xiaobo dutifully stood his ground and, consequently, became widely known as one of the so-called June 4 “black hands.”
Jul 13, 2017 · Liu Xiaobo, the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize laureate who was sentenced to eleven years for “inciting subversion” of China’s government, and who died of liver cancer on Thursday, illustrates a different pattern.
Dec 3, 2013 · Liu Xia has been under house arrest since 2010—during which she wrote a poem fragment translated here —even though she has never been charged with a crime; her brother Liu Hui was given a harsh 11-year sentence for fraud that many believe is further retribution against the family.
