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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 · Already a voracious reader, a lover of poetry and philosophy, and a polymath, Liu was becoming an increasingly iconoclastic, even nihilistic, thinker. At the same time, he was developing a preternatural urge to find new answers to vexing social and political questions in China.
Liu Xiaobo presented his famous statement "I have no enemies" to the court in December 2009 when he was tried for Charter 08, and later it was read at the Nobel Prize ceremony.
Jul 14, 2017 · “Love as intense as ice, love as remote as blackness,” reads one of the handwritten notes Mr. Liu wrote in a hospital in the northeastern city of Shenyang before he died of liver cancer on...
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.
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.
Jul 14, 2017 · Liu Xiaobo: The Man Who Stayed. Ian Johnson. Liu Xiaobo’s life and death stand for the fundamental conundrum of Chinese reformers over the past century—not how to boost GDP or recover lost territories, but how to create a more humane and just political system. July 14, 2017.
