A book of collected writings by imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo is soon to be released in English, making many of his poems and essays available in English for the first time. In the New York Times, Didi Kirsten Tatlow discusses Liu’s views on contemporary China:
In two dozen essays and 15 poems written between 1989 and 2009 and a document collection showing Mr. Liu’s path through the courts and into jail, the book offers “one of the most impressive analyses of China today,” as well as an important warning to those hoping the cash-rich country can “save” the world economy, Perry Link, one of three editors, said by telephone.
“The image of China in the West is superficial compared to Liu Xiaobo’s,” said Mr. Link, a leading scholar of modern Chinese literature at the University of California, Riverside.
“He sees the problems, the corruption, the bullying. There is the China that the Communist Party runs, that has so much money and might try to save the euro, and wants to take over the South China Sea, and then what he’s really talking about, the ordinary people and the ordinary problems from below,” he said.
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