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Liu Xiaobo

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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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Listeners · Last.fm

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Clinical features of patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China

    · 2020 · cited 36,637x

  2. Densely Connected Convolutional Networks

    · 2017 · cited 33,789x

  3. Going deeper with convolutions

    · 2015 · cited 32,884x

  4. Swin Transformer: Hierarchical Vision Transformer using Shifted Windows

    · 2021 · cited 29,434x

  5. MrBayes 3.2: Efficient Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference and Model Choice Across a Large Model Space

    · 2012 · cited 24,661x

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Quotes

  • “I hope that I will be the last victim in China's long record of treating words as crimes. Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth.”
  • “The political jokes people tell each other in private represent the conscience of the silent majority, and show us just how rotten are the foundations of post-totalitarian rule among the general public.”
  • “Resting beneath the mighty Communist regime is a civil society that remains weak. It doesn't have much courage and is not very sophisticated. As a civil society it is still in a nascent stage, and this is why we mus not expect it, in the near term, to produce a political organization that might replace the Communist regime.”
  • “Freedom. Freedom is at the core of universal human values. Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, freedom of association, freedom in where to live, and the freedoms to strike, to demonstrate, and to protest, among others, are the forms that freedom takes. Without freedom, China will always remain far from civilized ideals.”
  • “Other than pleasure-seeking and consumerism, it seems that the only fruit of our social development is a cancerous overgrowth of "the rational economic man": maximize personal gain, and that's all.”
  • “The worship of violence marks a reversion to barbarism for human civilization. This reversion happens most easily inside autocratic political systems, and the extent of the return to caveman impulses in in direct proportion to the barbarity of the autocracy within which it takes place: the more barbaric the dictatorship, the more devoutly the people will worship violence.”

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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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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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Liu Xiaobo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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