{"id":23829,"date":"2011-12-03T10:08:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-03T10:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=23829 "},"modified":"2011-12-03T10:08:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-03T10:08:00","slug":"23829-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=23829","title":{"rendered":"Exiled Chinese Poet and Author Liao Yiwu Now Able to Share His Work Abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"

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CHINESE dissident writer and poet Liao Yiwu will finally appear in Australia this week – after having been banned from travelling by Chinese authorities 17 times in the last three years.<\/span><\/div>
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In May, Liao, deemed a counter-revolutionary, was banned from attending the Sydney Writers’ Festival but in early July, he slipped out of China and into Vietnam, via a small border crossing he won’t reveal, and with the help of contacts and friends, made his way to Germany.<\/span><\/div>
Liao’s publisher is German, and the author has settled in Germany in self-imposed exile, free of the censorship he faces in his own country, where his tales of ”hidden” China are suppressed.<\/span><\/div>
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Speaking through a translator from Munich, ahead of his Australian visit this week, Liao says he is ”totally happy” to be free to publish his works.<\/span><\/div>
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”This is really wonderful feeling – this cat-and-mouse play with the police and the state ceased finally,” he says.<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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<div><p><strong><span style="font-weight:normal;">After three years of attempting to leave China, Liao will be appearing at the Sydney Writers&#8217; Festival. &nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ChinaHumanRights","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}