Liu Xiaobo

Also known as Liú Xiǎobō, Liu Xiao Bo, Xiaobo Liu

Chinese literary critic, writer, professor, and human rights activist (1955–2017)

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Liu Xiaobo was a person recognized in the Nobel Peace collection. He was born on December 28, 1955, and died on July 13, 2017. He had one child. His remains were cremated on July 15, 2017.

He is associated with five works. He received one Nobel Prize. His name appears in a Commons category. He is referenced by 603 other encyclopedia articles.

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Nobel Prize

The Nobel Peace Prize2010
“for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Family name: Liu
Gender: male
Citizenship: China
Place of birth: Changchun
Spouse: Liu Xia
Occupation: literary critic
Position held: president
Educated at: Beijing Normal University
Employer: Johns Hopkins University
Languages spoken: Chinese
Native language: Chinese
Religion: atheism
Participant in: Charter 08
Field of work: literary criticism
Image: Portrait of Liu Xiaobo by Wang Liming (2017, cropped).jpg
Number of children: 1
Convicted of: inciting subversion of state power

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Commons category: Liu Xiaobo
date of birth: 1955-12-28
name in native language: 刘晓波
date of death: 2017-07-13
cause of death: cancer
manner of death: natural causes
on focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Human rights
penalty: civil death
writing language: Chinese
date of burial or cremation: 2017-07-15

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Encyclopedic overview

Liu Xiaobo (Chinese: 刘晓波; pinyin: Liú Xiǎobō; 28 December 1955 – 13 July 2017) was a Chinese literary critic, human rights activist, philosopher and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who called for political reforms and was involved in campaigns to end Chinese Communist Party one-party rule in China. He was arrested numerous times, and was described as China's most prominent dissident and the country's most famous political prisoner. On 26 June 2017, he was granted medical parole after being diagnosed with liver cancer; he died a few weeks later on 13 July 2017.

Liu rose to fame in 1980s Chinese literary circles with his literary critiques. He eventually became a visiting scholar at several international universities. He returned to China to support the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and was imprisoned for the first time from 1989 to 1991, again from 1995 to 1996 and yet again from 1996 to 1999 for his involvement on suspicion of inciting subversion of state power. He served as the President of the Independent Chinese PEN Center, from 2003 to 2007. He was also the president of Minzhu Zhongguo [zh] (Democratic China) magazine starting in the mid-1990s. On 8 December 2008, Liu was detained due to his participation with the Charter 08 manifesto. He was formally arrested on 23 June 2009 on suspicion of "inciting subversion of state power". He was tried on the same charges on 23 December 2009 and sentenced to eleven years' imprisonment and two years' deprivation of political rights on 25 December 2009.

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