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China’s Nobel Winners, Past and Possible

With the announcement this week of the 2012 Nobel Prizes, the BBC’s Damian Grammaticas revisits the situation of imprisoned 2010 Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo and his wife, Liu Xia. Liu Xia remains under strict house arrest intended, according to an anonymous friend of the family, to put pressure on her husband: “The government is trying to force Liu Xiaobo to leave China by taking his