Fresh Wave of International Support for Liu Xia
In a show of solidarity with writer Liu Xia, who is living under official detention in her...
Liao Yiwu
Liu Xia “Ready to Die” Amid Renewed Calls for Release
Since the death of imprisoned Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo last July, the extra-legal house...
Liu Xiaobo Not Allowed to Go Abroad
Ailing Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo remains in the First Hospital of China Medical...
Minitrue: No Reports on Liu Xiaobo’s Medical Parole
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Ai Weiwei: “I Try to Talk Less”
In Berlin, Ian Johnson sat down with both writer Liao Yiwu, who has lived there since 2011, and Ai...
Facebook CEO “Not Exactly Honest” About Free Speech
In a blog post translated at China Change, Tibetan writer Tsering Woeser questioned Facebook CEO...
Facebook Suspends Exiled Writer Liao Yiwu’s Account
The Wall Street Journal reports that exiled Chinese writer Liao Yiwu’s Facebook account has...
Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo Sends Message from Prison
Edward Wong and Ian Johnson at The New York Times report on a purported message from imprisoned...
German Broadcaster Fires Chinese Blogger
At The New York Times, Ian Johnson reports that German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW) has...
“Five Star Billionaire” And Other Must-Read Books
Tash Aw, a writer born in Taipei who grew up in Kuala Lumpur before moving to England, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize for his novel, “Five Star Billionaire,” a fictional self-help book for social climbers...
Prison of the Mind: Liao Yiwu’s Memoir of Incarceration
At The New Yorker, Ian Buruma reviews Liao Yiwu’s prison memoir For a Song and a Hundred Songs: A Poet’s Journey through a Chinese Prison. The book was rewritten twice after its first and second drafts were...
A Hundred Songs: Liao Yiwu Visits U.S.
At The Wall Street Journal, Sofia McFarland and Liao Yiwu discuss Liao’s memoir of his four-year imprisonment following the 1989 June 4th crackdown, For a Song and a Hundred Songs: A Poet’s Journey through a Chinese...
Poet Liao Yiwu’s Nightmare in Chinese Prison
At The New York Times, Elaine Sciolino talks to poet and author Liao Yiwu about his forthcoming memoir For a Song and a Hundred Songs: A Poet’s Journey Through a Chinese Prison, to be published in the U.S. on June 4th. The title...
Exiled Poet Liao Yiwu’s Prison Memoir Released in France
Liao Yiwu spent the early 1990s in prison for writing the poem Massacre, about the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. His account of these four years will be published in English this summer as For a Song and a Hundred Songs: A...
Sensitive Words: Luzhou Riots, Liao Yiwu and More
Correction: “Sibada” is the Chinese for “Sparta.” As of October 19, the...
From Virginia Suburb, Yu Jie Continues His Mission
The New York Times’ Edward Wong talks to writer Yu Jie, who left China for the United States last month, about the experiences that drove him to leave, his Christian faith and his plans for the future. … He began thinking...
Testimony of Torture: Liao Yiwu Exposes Prison Brutality
Berlin-based writer Liao Yiwu talks to Der Spiegel about “Für ein Lied und hundert Lieder” (“For a Song and a Hundred Songs”), a memoir of his four years in prison. As well as the grisly conditions...
Liao Yiwu: Walking Out on China
At The New York Times, writer Liao Yiwu describes his escape from China: Yunnan province, in southwestern China, has long been the exit point for Chinese who yearn for a new life outside the country. There, one can sneak out of...
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