Liu Binyan

Liu Binyan刘宾雁( born February 23, 1925 in Changchun, Jilin; † December 5, 2005 in Trenton, New Jersey) was Chinese dissident and journalist and author of China's important.

Life

Liu was born in 1925 the son of a railway worker in China. He attended school only until the ninth grade, but was very interested in books. As a young man he was active in the Communist Party of China, at the same time he started his career as a journalist with the largest youth newspaper of China, " China Youth News".

Liu Binyan quickly became known as a fighter against corruption in the new People's Republic of China. For his actions he was exiled twice by the party in first in the 1950s in a small mountain village and from 1969 to 1977 a labor camp. 1978 permission was given to him to be a journalist again.

1988, offered him the opportunity to as " Nieman Fellow" to go to Harvard University, a return was impossible for him after the Tiananmen uprising in the spring of 1989, however. He remained as a dissident in the U.S. and worked for the U.S. newspaper " Duowei Times " (多维 新闻), which appear in the Chinese language. As an author he was especially with his work " China, My China! " (1989), internationally known.

Works

• Interview with a " legal element ". in accents (magazine) H. 2, April 1985 pp. 132-143 Übers Helmut Martin
• China! My China! Zsolnay, Darmstadt 1989 ISBN 3552041389
• China 's Crisis, China 's Hope. Harvard University Press 1990 ISBN 0674118820