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https://ceas.yale.edu/events/love-songs-chinas-gulag
The Love Songs from China’s Gulag
Liao Yiwu & Liu Xia
Tuesday, October 2, 2018 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Room 317, Linsly-Chittenden Hall
63 High Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Please join the Council on East Asian Studies for a special event with Liao
Yiwu and Liu Xia. This event will feature a poetry reading by Liao Yiwu of
several poems about labor camps in Sichuan, China and a poem titled “A
dirge for Liu Xiaobo.” Liu Xia will read “Empty Chair” and other poems,
followed by Liao Yiwu’s performance on the Chinese vertical flute of music
entitled “The last minute of Liao Xiaobo.”
Chinese exiled writer Liao Yiwu was out of school in early years, took a
succession of jobs and eventually became involved in avant-garde poetry in
1980s. In 1990, he was arrested after publicly reciting his poem Massacre in
memory of the victims of Tiananmen Square, military crackdown on June 4,
1989, and spent four years in prison. After his release, he wrote several
books, all of which were banned in China but sold well on underground market
. One of them became first book to appear in English in 2008, as The Corpse
Walker: Real Life Stories, China from the Bottom Up. For a Song and a
Hundred Songs was published in English in 2013. He fled China in 2011 and
has lived in Germany under asylum.
Liu Xia is a poet, artist and founding member of the independent Chinese PEN
Center. Her husband, literary critic and human right activist Liu Xiaobo
served an 11-year’s prison sentence for “inciting subversion of state
power,” then awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010. Although never charged
with a crime, Liu Xia disappeared under extralegal house arrest for her
husband sentenced to prison for drafting a petition calling for democracy
and human rights in China. After substantial pressure from German Chancellor
Angela Merkel and the international community, Liu Xia was finally given
freedom to leave China and arrived in Berlin after 10-year’s residential
surveillance.
The Silent Strength of Liu Xia is a collection of 25 black-and-white
photographs Liu Xia produced between 1996 and 1999 while her husband served
his second stint in a labor re-education camp. It is the only exhibition of
Liu Xia’s photographic work in the United States. In 2015, a bilingual
collection of Liu Xia’s poetry, Empty Chairs, was published by Graywolf
Press. |
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