Culture
06.27.19

‘What I’m Always Doing Is Escaping, Escaping, Escaping’

Perry Link

Liu Xia, widow of Liu Xiaobo, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010 and died while in Chinese custody in 2017, has opened up to the public for the first time since she began a life of exile in Germany nearly a year ago. On May 4, in a dialogue...

The NYRB China Archive
11.27.17

China’s Art of Containment

Geremie R. Barmé

On the evening of May 20, 1989, in response to weeks of mass demonstrations in Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government placed Beijing under martial law. The following morning, in Hong Kong, far to the south, Wen Wei Po, the main Communist-...