Pierre Haski révèle le destin et la personnalité de Liu Xiaobo, un héros méconnu qui a eu le courage de défier Pékin.Le 10 décembre 2010, le prix Nobel de la paix était remis à Oslo à… une chaise vide. Le lauréat, l’intellectuel dissident chinois Liu Xiaobo se trouvait au même moment dans une cellule d’une prison chinoise, purgeant une peine de neuf années d’emprisonnement pour avoir réclamé la démocratie. La vie de Liu Xiaobo épouse la longue et difficile lutte des...

Liu Xiaobo ist nicht nur der prominenteste Systemkritiker Chinas, sondern einer der einflussreichsten Schriftsteller und Denker des Landes. Er ist eine Schlüsselfigur für die chinesische Demokratiebewegung. Umso erstaunlicher ist, dass bislang kaum etwas von ihm in einer westlichen Sprache zu lesen war.Mit dieser Auswahl seiner wichtigsten Texte ist Liu Xiaobo als ein herausragender Autor, Denker und Lyriker für das deutsche Publikum zu entdecken. Seine Essays zur chinesischen Polit...

Liu Xiaobo died in 2017, the first Nobel Laureate to do so in detention since 1935. Liu was a pre-eminent Chinese literary critic, professor and humanitarian activist. After his hunger strike in Tiananmen Square in June 1989 he became a thorn in the side of the Chinese government, helping to write the Charter 08 manifesto calling for free speech, democratic elections and basic human rights. He was arrested and convicted on charges of 'incitement to subversion', and sentenced to eleven year...

When the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced it was awarding the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize to the Chinese literary critic and human rights activist Liu Xiaobo, it made special note of his role in writing a remarkable political manifesto called Charter 08. In China, that same document has caused officials to throw him in jail with an 11-year sentence that is extraordinary even by Chinese standards, while taking drastic measures to silence any mention of the text.But what is Charter 08 ...

In December 2008 some 350 Chinese intellectuals published a manifesto calling for reform of the Chinese constitution and an end to one-party rule. Known as “Charter 08,” the manifesto has since been signed by more than 10,000 people. One of its authors, Liu Xiaobo, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010 but has remained in prison since 2009 for subversive crimes. This collection of essays—the first of its kind in English—examines the trial of Liu Xiaobo, the significance and impact of C...

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 impris...

An Authorlink Top Five Book of 2020As 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 Commun...

The Chinese Communist Party's contemporary literary prison has reached its peak, and it is obviously Chen Du.What the founding party members such as Xiu did not expect, even the founding of the Communist Party of ChinaMao Zedong also openly admitted: "What is Qin Shihuang?He only pit 460 Confucianism, we pit 40,006A thousand Confucians ...... "In fact. Persecution under the Chinese Communist PartyThe dead literati have long been far more than 46,000, and ...

This is the very first book that offers an up-to-date and comprehensive overview on deuteride. It not only includes the concept, existing forms, key characteristics, but also reviews the preparation and characterization technologies and the latest research developments of deuteride. The special properties such as the nuclear properties, isotropic and neutron effect, poisonousness, radioactivity, volume expansion are systematically discussed to build up the sound understanding of the materi...

La revue semestrielle Jentayu (ISSN 2426-2536) est dédiée à la traduction de textes courts ou d'extraits de roman. À chaque numéro, entre douze et quinze textes provenant d'une variété de pays et de régions d'Asie sont sélectionnés sur un thème donné et traduits par des traducteurs chevronnés. Pour certains de ces textes, ils sont aussi mis en contexte sur le site internet de Jentayu

On December 10, 2010, on stage in Oslo City Hall, an empty chair sat before more than one thousand people, holding only the medal and diploma of the year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner. A larger-than-life photo of a smiling Liu Xiaobo hung in the background.This striking image is now known throughout the world. But who is Liu Xiaobo? For the first time, this biographyby renowned Chinese author and close friend Yu Jie offers a first-hand look into the man behind the empty chair. Disside...

Late one night in December 2008, police arrived at the home of Liu Xiaobo—China’s leading dissident, a key figure in the prodemocracy manifesto Charter 08—and took him away. When Liu won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize as a political prisoner, the award was bestowed on an empty chair. Inside China, the regime sought to erase every trace of his existence. Liu died of liver cancer in 2017 without ever having been allowed to return home.I Have No Enemies is the definitive biograph...