Steel Gate to Freedom
The Life of Liu Xiaobo
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Product details:
- Publisher Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Date of Publication 7 November 2017
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9780810896369
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages260 pages
- Size 230x149x14 mm
- Weight 349 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 11 BW Photos Illustrations, unspecified 0
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Short description:
Chinese activist Liu Xiaobo (1955?2017)?awarded the Nobel Peace Prize while serving an eleven-year prison sentence?helped shatter longstanding barriers to freedom of organization and expression in China. This biography, written by one of his closest friends, retraces Liu Xiaobo?s inspiring life, from his childhood years through his current imprisonment. He became terminally ill while incarcerated and died July 13, 2017.
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On December 10, 2010, on stage in Oslo City Hall, an empty chair sat before more than one thousand people, holding only the medal and diploma of the year?s Nobel Peace Prize winner. A larger-than-life photo of a smiling Liu Xiaobo hung in the background.
This striking image is now known throughout the world. But who is Liu Xiaobo? For the first time, this biography by renowned Chinese author and close friend Yu Jie offers a first-hand look into the man behind the empty chair. Dissident, prisoner, poet, scholar, Liu was compelled by intolerable circumstances to embark on a campaign of intellectual dissent, becoming in the course of his journey a leading human rights activist and one of the most important political figures in modern history.
In the quarter century since the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989, Liu has been unable to lead a normal life. In this first authorized biography, Yu traces an extraordinary man?s odyssey, from growing up in the northeast and Inner Mongolia during the Cultural Revolution, through his meteoric rise in Beijing?s intellectual circles and his pivotal role in the Tiananmen protests and subsequent imprisonments, to the founding of the controversial Independent Chinese PEN and groundbreaking Charter 08, his poignant relationship with wife Liu Xia, and winning the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. It is also a love story between two poets who, though separated by three hundred miles and eleven years behind bars, are united in their persistence to speak truth to power, inspiring countless others.
Political exile Yu presents the unvarnished biography of fellow activist Liu in this intimate portrait of the man "labeled ?the black hand' behind the Tiananmen student protests." Born during the Cold War, Liu's family's "dining table was a battleground" and his interest in writing began with membership in the Intellectual Youth; by 1984 he'd become a lecturer with a significant following. In diaristic form, Yu relates how Liu became involved in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and how he was arrested for his leading role. Liu was released but was arrested twice more in the 1990s. In 2003 he helped found the Independent PEN China Center and served as its president until 2007. Liu was awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, but was unable to collect it as he was once again arrested, this time for his role in writing?along with Yu and others?a 2008 manifesto, Charter 08, which called for a multiparty system in China. Liu remains imprisoned, but Yu notes that the Internet has offered a way for Liu to communicate with the outside world and continue his political work.
Table of Contents:
Foreword?Jean-Philippe Béja
1 The Young Boy on the Black Soil
2 Beijing Stories
3 The Black Hand of Tiananmen
4 Start from Zero
5 One Man?s War
6 Final Warning: Charter 08
7 Liu Xia
8 Nobel: A Crown of Thorns
Timeline
Notes
Bibliography
About the Author and the Translator
Steel Gate to Freedom: The Life of Liu Xiaobo
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