My friend Xiaorong Li has a remembrance in The New York Times, “Liu Xiaobo’s Unflappable Optimism.”
Also see the well-known Sinologist Perry Link on “the passion of Liu Xiaobo,” in the NYR Daily.
Liu Xiaobo, R.I.P.
July 13, 2017 by Arun
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