The Journey of Liu Xiaobo: From Dark Horse to Nobel Laureate

The Journey of Liu Xiaobo: From Dark Horse to Nobel Laureate was published this April, 2020, and features a chapter by Consortium scholar, Teng Biao, entitled “Liu Xiaobo’s Death as an Event of Human Spirit”.

As a fearless poet and prolific essayist and critic, Liu Xiaobo became one of the most important dissident thinkers in the People’s Republic of China. His nonviolent activism steered the nation’s prodemocracy currents from Tiananmen Square to support for Tibet and beyond. Liu undertook perhaps his bravest act when he helped draft and gather support for Charter 08, a democratic vision for China that included free elections and the end of the Communist Party’s monopoly on power. While imprisoned for “inciting subversion of state power,” Liu won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. He was granted medical parole just weeks before dying of cancer in 2017.

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