June Fourth Elegies / tranlated from the Chinese by Jeffrey Yang ; foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Liu Xiaobo

ISBN 10: 0224096818 / ISBN 13: 9780224096812

Edité par London: Jonathan Cape, 2012

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Liu Xiaobo. June Fourth Elegies / tranlated from the Chinese by Jeffrey Yang ; foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. London: Jonathan Cape, 2012. Cape Poetry. First edition. Paperback, VG+. Binding strong nd square. Red endpapers. xii, 229pp., light tanning to top edge of page block, contents clean and bright. In Chinese with parallel English translation. Liu Xiaobo (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 communist 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. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.

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• Titre: June Fourth Elegies / tranlated from the Chinese by Jeffrey Yang ; foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
• Éditeur: London: Jonathan Cape
• Date de parution: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0224096818
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780224096812
• Reliure: Soft cover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Poetry
  • Modern poetry

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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 years in prison. The following year, 2010, during this fourth prison term, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 'his prolonged non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China'. Neither he nor his wife was allowed to travel to Oslo, and the Chinese government blocked all news stories of the prize and intimidated Liu's friends and family.

June Fourth Elegies is a collection of the poems Liu Xiaobo wrote each year on the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. An extraordinarily moving testimony and an historical document of singular importance, it is dedicated to 'the Tiananmen Mothers and for those who can remember'. In this bilingual volume, Liu's poetry is for the first time published freely in both English translation and in the Chinese original.

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Liu Xiaobo was a political activist, author, university professor and writer. He was awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. He died in 2017.