Nobel Prize Winner Liu Xiaobo: Profile in Peace (Peace Talks Radio) [29:00]
Series: Peace Talks Radio - Series of Half-Hours
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Length: 00:49:39
In 2010, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Liu Xiaobo, the Chinese literary critic, writer, professor, and human rights activist who has called for political reforms in China for decades. Currently incarcerated as a political prisoner in China, he was unable to attend the peace award ceremony. We talk with poet Jeffrey Yang who is editing a collection of Xiaobo's poetry to learn more about the prize winner's life and commitment to peace. Also Chinese writer Tienchi Liao, a literary colleague of Xiaobo, details Xiaobo's key role in the Tiananmen Square turmoil of 1989, and offers perspective on Xiaobo's political writing. Paul Ingles hosts.
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Piece Description
In 2010, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Liu Xiaobo, the Chinese literary critic, writer, professor, and human rights activist who has called for political reforms in China for decades. Currently incarcerated as a political prisoner in China, he was unable to attend the peace award ceremony. We talk with poet Jeffrey Yang who is editing a collection of Xiaobo's poetry to learn more about the prize winner's life and commitment to peace. Also Chinese writer Tienchi Liao, a literary colleague of Xiaobo, details Xiaobo's key role in the Tiananmen Square turmoil of 1989, and offers perspective on Xiaobo's political writing. Paul Ingles hosts.
Transcript
Peace Talks Radio host Paul Ingles talks with Tienchi Liao, writer, activist, and colleague of Liu Xiaobo
Ingles: Let’s remind our listeners of some of the dramatic turns that Liu Xiaobo was actually involved with in those days before the June 4th massacre in Tiananmen Square in 1989.
Liao: Yes.
Ingles: He participated in a hunger strike didn’t he?
Liao: Yes.
Ingles: Can you tell us more about that?
Liao: He participated in the hunger strike of this so called Four Gentleman’s, together with Zhou Dou, another young teacher in the university, and the singer Hou Dejian from Taiwan and another editor with the name Gao Xin. These four young men are called later: the Four Gentleman’s on Tiananmen Square.
Ingles: And what was the purpose of the strike? Was it to win confidence from the student protesters? Tell me more about that.
Liao: Yes. These four young men started their hunger...
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29:00 No Breaks
Additional Files
- Jeffrey Yang (jyang.jpg)
- Tienchi Liao (liao_1_.jpg)
Additional Credits
Oppenheimer Brothers Foundation
KUNM, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
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