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Liao Yiwu (Chinese: 廖亦武; pinyin: Liào Yìwǔ; also known as Lao Wei (Chinese: 老威); born 16 June 1958) is a Chinese author, reporter, musician, and poet. [1] He is a critic of China's Communist Party , for which he was imprisoned in 1990.
Liao Yiwu (廖亦武) (born 1958 in Sichuan) is a Chinese author, reporter, musician, and poet. He is a critic of China's Communist regime, for which he has been imprisoned. His books were published in Taiwan and Hong Kong but are banned in mainland China. He fled China in 2010 and lives in Germany.
Jul 11, 2013 · Liao Yiwu was in his early 30s when he was arrested for writing and performing a poem about the brutality of the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989. His poem — simply called “Massacre” — was an...
Liao Yiwu is a poet, novelist, and screenwriter. In 1989, he published an epic poem, "Massacre," that condemned the killings in Tiananmen Square and for which he spent four years in prison. His works include Testimonials and Report on China’s Victims of Injustice.
Jun 23, 2013 · Here, Buruma and Gourevitch talk about why Liao doesn’t consider himself a political dissident, why his writing is threatening to the Chinese government, and the challenges of living in exile.
Mar 30, 2011 · The last time we checked in on the great Chinese writer, oral historian, and folk musician, Liao Yiwu (author of “The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories: China from the Bottom Up”), he had just...
Jul 6, 2011 · Liao Yiwu, the writer, has left China, his homeland. He arrived this morning in Berlin, via Warsaw and Hanoi. This is good news and bad news at once.
Introduction: Freedom of Expression on Trial in China. On Christmas Day, 2009, a court in Beijing convicted Liu Xiaobo (刘晓波) , a prominent intellectual, of “inciting subversion of state power” and sentenced him to 11 years in prison and two years of deprivation of political rights.
May 22, 2014 · When tanks rolled into Beijing on June 3, 1989 on the way to a bloody crackdown on Tiananmen Square, Liao Yiwu was at home in Sichuan province. Shocked by news of the tragedy, in which hundreds...
Liao Yiwu is a writer, musician, and poet from Sichuan, China. He is a critic of the Chinese regime, for which he has been imprisoned, and the majority of his writings are banned in China. Liao is the author of The Corpse Walker and God Is Red.
