Tienchi Martin-Liao describes the tragic love story of two real-life Chinese human rights activists, separated by a cruel dictatorship, through their beautiful poetry.
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Tienchi Martin Liao bids farewell to Liu Xiaobo, an outspoken advocate for democracy and freedom of expression in China, who died a political prisoner on July 13, 2017.
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Liu Xia, a poet and wife of imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo, has been under house arrest since October 2010. In this video, secretly recorded in December, Liu reads two of her new works.
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Independent Chinese PEN Center president, Tienchi Martin-Liao, reflects on the five-year anniversary of imprisonment of dissident writer and Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo, his wife’s prolonged, Kafkaesque house arrest, the calls for solidarity from Chinese human rights activists, and the power of words.
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On December 6th several AP reporters were able to sneak into the house of Liu Xia for her first interview since she was placed under house arrest two years ago. Tienchi Martin-Liao on the true love story of Liu Xiaobo and Liu Xia.
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This week: Nobel Prize winner Mo Yan on when censorship is permissible, cartoonists face censorship in South Africa, and free speech in Kazakhstan.
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Chinese photographer and poet Liu Xia has been under house arrest since 2010, when her husband Liu Xiaobo was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Sampsonia Way is pleased to share a selection of Liu Xia’s photographs.
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