Liu Xiaobo - Wikipedia
WEBLiu Xiaobo (Chinese: 刘晓波; pinyin: Liú Xiǎobō; 28 December 1955 – 13 July 2017) was a Chinese literary critic, human rights activist, philosopher and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who called for political reforms and was involved in campaigns to end Chinese Communist Party one-party rule in China. [2]
Liu Xiaobo | Facts, Biography, & Nobel Prize | Britannica
WEBLiu Xiaobo (born December 28, 1955, Changchun, Jilin province, China—died July 13, 2017, Shenyang, Liaoning province, China) was a Chinese literary critic, professor, and human rights activist who called for democratic reforms and the …
Liu Xiaobo – Facts - NobelPrize.org
WEBJul 13, 2017 · Born: 28 December 1955, Changchun, China. Died: 13 July 2017, Shenyang, China. Residence at the time of the award: China. Prize motivation: “for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China”. Prize share: 1/1. Sentenced for the Crime of Speaking.
Liu Xiaobo, Chinese Dissident Who Won Nobel While Jailed, Dies …
WEBJul 13, 2017 · BEIJING — Liu Xiaobo, the renegade Chinese intellectual who kept vigil at Tiananmen Square in 1989 to protect protesters from encroaching soldiers, promoted a pro-democracy charter that...
Remembering Chinese Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo
WEBJul 12, 2023 · Liu was a Chinese literary critic and leader in the 1989 pro-democracy Tiananmen Square protests. He was imprisoned three times for his peaceful criticism of the...
Liu Xiaobo – Biographical - NobelPrize.org
WEBJul 13, 2017 · Liu Xiaobo, a prominent independent intellectual in China, is a long-time advocate of political reform and human rights in China and an outspoken critic of the Chinese communist regime; Liu has been detained, put under house arrest and imprisoned many times for his writing and activism.
Liu Xiaobo - PEN America
WEBLiu Xiaobo. Liu Xiaobo, a renowned literary critic, writer, political activist, and 2010 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, was formally arrested in 2009 and charged with “inciting subversion of state power,” and sentenced in 2010 to 11 years in prison for penning seven sentences. His wife, Liu Xia, has been under house arrest since the ...
Liu Xiaobo, Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace laureate, 1955-2017
WEBJul 13, 2017 · Liu Xiaobo, China’s most prominent dissident and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, has died of liver cancer on Thursday after more than eight years in custody. Liu’s career as a public ...
Imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize Winner Liu Xiaobo Dies at Age 61
WEBJul 13, 2017 · Liu Xiaobo, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning writer and activist who spent nearly the last decade of his life imprisoned by the Chinese government, has died at age 61, reports Chris Buckley for the...
China’s Iconoclast | Ian Johnson | The New York Review of Books
WEBI Have No Enemies: The Life and Legacy of Liu Xiaobo by Perry Link, the leading Western chronicler of dissent in China, and a Chinese colleague who writes anonymously as Wu Dazhi is the definitive biography of the most famous dissident in the nearly seventy-five-year history of the People’s Republic of China. The book, long and necessarily ambitious, is also a tour de force survey of Chinese ...