{"id":166050,"date":"2013-11-29T21:01:58","date_gmt":"2013-11-30T05:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=166050"},"modified":"2013-11-29T21:01:58","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T05:01:58","slug":"letter-liu-xiaobos-wife-surfaces-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/11\/letter-liu-xiaobos-wife-surfaces-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter From Liu Xiaobo&#8217;s Wife Surfaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Ramzy reports for The New York Times on <a title=\" Isolation Under House Arrest for Wife of Imprisoned Nobel Laureate\" href=\"http:\/\/sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/11\/29\/isolation-under-house-arrest-for-wife-of-imprisoned-nobel-laureate\/\"><strong>a newly emerged personal letter by Liu Xia<\/strong><\/a>, who has been <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/04\/liu-xia-tell-everybody-im-not-free-2\/\">under house arrest<\/a> since her imprisoned husband <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2010\/10\/nobel-peace-prize-goes-to-liu-xiaobo\/\">Liu Xiaobo won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize<\/a>. From Perry Link&#8217;s translation of the letter:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I have always loved reading, and do much of it. Most of the books in our home are ones I personally purchased and brought here, and most of the hours in my life are spent in reading them. I describe myself as having grown up \u201cfeeding on books.\u201d My reading has no specific goal; for me it\u2019s rather like breathing \u2014 I have to do it in order to live. When I find books that I love, I feel the author is writing for me alone, and feel a private joy.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026] I chose this life myself, so need to see it through to the end.<\/p>\n<p>In 1996, at the Holocaust museum in Washington, D.C., I bought a postcard that showed a pile of shoes of Jewish people. Since then, innumerable Jewish people have been standing in my memory. I think that some day we, too, will have a memorial building to remember those people who are slipping out of the memories of Chinese today. We will. For sure. [<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/11\/29\/isolation-under-house-arrest-for-wife-of-imprisoned-nobel-laureate\/\">Source<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to reports earlier this month, <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/11\/jailed-nobel-peace-laureate-liu-xiaobo-seeks-retrial\/\">Liu Xiaobo is to appeal the 11-year sentence<\/a> of which he has now served almost half.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Ramzy reports for The New York Times on a newly emerged personal letter by Liu Xia, who has been under house arrest since her imprisoned husband Liu Xiaobo won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. From Perry Link&#8217;s translation of the letter: I have always loved reading, and do much of it. 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