{"id":87740,"date":"2020-03-21T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=87740 "},"modified":"2020-03-21T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T09:00:00","slug":"87740-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=87740","title":{"rendered":"THE JOURNEY OF LIU XIAOBO From Dark Horse to Nobel Laureate EDITED BY JOANNE LEEDOM-ACKERMAN WITH YU ZHANG, JIE LI, AND TIENCHI MARTIN-LIAO TRANSLATED BY STACY MOSHER AND ANDR\u00c9A WORDEN"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cThis invaluable book shows the range and depth of Liu Xiaobo\u2019s interests, concerns, and thoughts. It helps us know this remarkable man intimately. As a document, this book bears another kind of witness, both personal and historical.\u201d\u2014Ha Jin, author of Waiting, winner of the National Book Award<\/div>
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\u201cThe late Nobel Peace Prize laureate comes alive in these intimate recollections and thoughtful reflections, contributed by dozens of his friends and admirers\u2014many of them, like Liu, heroes of the long, hard Chinese struggle for democracy.\u201d\u2014Andrew J. Nathan, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University<\/div>
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\u201cThrough this book Liu Xiaobo lives on and will surely have increasing impact!\u201d\u2014Jerome Cohen, senior fellow for Asia Studies, Council on Foreign Relations<\/div>
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As a fearless poet and prolific essayist and critic, Liu Xiaobo became one of the most important dissident thinkers in the People\u2019s Republic of China. His nonviolent activism steered the nation\u2019s prodemocracy currents from Tiananmen Square to support for Tibet and beyond. Liu undertook perhaps his bravest act when he helped draft and gather support for Charter 08, a democratic vision for China that included free elections and the end of the Communist Party\u2019s monopoly on power. While imprisoned for \u201cinciting subversion of state power,\u201d Liu won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. He was granted medical parole just weeks before dying of cancer in 2017.<\/div>
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The Journey of Liu Xiaobo draws together essays and reflections on the \u201cNelson Mandela of China.\u201d The Dalai Lama, artist and activist Ai Weiwei, and a distinguished list of leading Chinese writers and intellectuals, including Zhang Zuhua, the main drafter of Charter 08, and Liu Xia, the wife of Liu Xiaobo, and noted China scholars, journalists, and political leaders from around the globe, including Yu Ying-shih, Perry Link, Andrew J. Nathan, Marco Rubio, and Chris Smith illuminate Liu\u2019s journey from his youth and student years, through his indis- pensable activism, and to his defiant last days. Many of the pieces were written immediately after Liu\u2019s death, adding to the emotions stirred by his loss.<\/div>
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Original and powerful, The Journey of Liu Xiaobo combines memory with insightful analysis to evaluate Liu\u2019s impact on his era, nation, and the cause of human freedom.<\/div>
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Joanne Leedom-Ackerman is a novelist, short story writer, and journalist. She is vice president emeritus of PEN International and served as chair of PEN International\u2019s Writers in Prison Committee while Liu was imprisoned. Leedom-Ackerman later served as the International Secretary of PEN International in the same years Liu Xiaobo was president of the Independent Chinese PEN Center (ICPC). Yu Zhang is a Chinese citizen based in Sweden. As a scholar, editor, and translator, he is the coordinator of the ICPC\u2019s Writers in Prison and the Freedom to Write Committee and served as secretary-general of the ICPC during the years Liu was president of the center. Jie Li is a Chinese American librarian, editor of the Democratic China English website, and a former volunteer for the ICPC. Tienchi Martin-Liao is a Chinese German author, editor, and translator and the president of the ICPC.<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

<div>Liu Xiaobo was the first Chinese citizen to win the Nobel Prize for Peace, but he was imprisoned by the Chinese government and died in custody. He was a remarkable man and thinker whose voice should continue to be heard.<\/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-87740","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\/87740","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=87740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}