{"id":23832,"date":"2011-12-03T10:36:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-03T10:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=23832 "},"modified":"2011-12-03T10:36:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-03T10:36:00","slug":"23832-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=23832","title":{"rendered":"Liu Xia, Wife of 2010 Nobel Laurette Liu Xiabo, Exhibits Work at Parisian Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span id=\"articleText\"><p>&nbsp;<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 16px; \">Chinese artist Liu Xia never expected her disturbing photographs to be shown beyond the walls of her Beijing apartment. In China, she is a forbidden artist, living in the shadow of her jailed husband, 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo.<\/span><\/p><div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; \">For the first time, 26 of her photos, spirited out of China, are being exhibited in a small showroom on the outskirts of Paris.<\/span><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; \">In summer 2010, Guy Sorman, a French author and economist who visited her many times, persuaded the quiet woman to opt for a public viewing abroad.<\/span><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; \">Despite being a world premiere, the show, which has been open for more than two weeks in a relatively obscure showroom in the western Paris suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt, has gone almost unnoticed by the general public.<\/span><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; \">Sorman attributes the absence of a higher-profile premiere to France&#8217;s complicated relationship with China.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div><\/div><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p><div><span style=\"color: #2d2d2d; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Lucida Grande', 'Segoe UI', Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-left; background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 12pt; \">Continue reading&nbsp;<\/span><strong style=\"color: #2d2d2d; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Lucida Grande', 'Segoe UI', Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: -webkit-left; background-color: #ffffff; \"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; \"><a href=\"http:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/11\/09\/us-finearts-china-photos-idUKTRE7A84FD20111109\" style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #034af3; \"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; \">original article<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; \">.<\/span><\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/div><\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: normal; &quot;&gt;Since her husband&amp;#8217;s winning of the Nobel Peace Prize Liu Xia has been under house arrest and allowed little contact with the outside.&amp;nbsp; Her photo exhibit, titled &amp;#8220;Ugly Babies,&amp;#8221; represent the suppression of herself, her husband, and the Chinese people by the current government.&lt;\/span&gt;&lt;\/strong&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;<\/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-23832","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\/23832","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=23832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}