BEIJING — For a year, Liu Xiaobo’s empty, blue chair at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo in December 2010 was almost the only thing that spoke to the world on behalf of the jailed laureate.
Now a new book is about to fill in the silence.
“No Enemies, No Hatred,” to be published by Harvard University Press in January, is the first English-language collection of works by Mr. Liu, a former university professor sentenced in December 2009 to 11 years in prison for “incitement to subvert state power.”
In two dozen essays and 15 poems written between 1989 and 2009 and a document collection showing Mr. Liu’s path through the courts and into jail, the book offers “one of the most impressive analyses of China today,” as well as an important warning to those hoping the cash-rich country can “save” the world economy, Perry Link, one of three editors, said by telephone.
“The image of China in the West is superficial compared to Liu Xiaobo’s,” said Mr. Link, a leading scholar of modern Chinese literature at the University of California, Riverside.
