Press: General

Here we gather online sources generally relevant to Liu Xia, her life and work, with the most recent first. (For press coverage of her touring exhibition, click here.)

• “Liu case lost in keen bid for trade,” by Jared Genser, The Australian, June 26, 2013.
• “Wife of jailed Nobel peace laureate Liu Xiaobo to petition for retrial,” Associated Press report in the South China Morning Post, June 22, 2013.
• “Wife of jailed Chinese Nobel winner launching legal challenge,” Associated Press Associated Press report at CTV News (Canada), June 21, 2013.
• “China’s jailed Nobel’s wife prepares legal challenge of husband’s conviction, her house arrest,” Associated Press report in the Washington Post, June 21, 2013.
• “Wife of jailed Nobel winner Liu Xiaobo writes open letter to Xi,” by Verna Yu, South China Morning Post, June 15, 2013.
• “Jailed Nobel’s wife pens open letter to China’s Xi,” Associated Press report in the Tehran Times, June 14, 2013.
• “Jailed China dissident’s wife decries injustice in letter to Chinese President Xi,” Reuters report at Asahi Shimbun (Tokyo), June 14, 2013.
• “Liu Xiaobo’s wife appeals to Xi Jinping over jailed Chinese Nobel laureate,” AFP report in the London Telegraph, June 14, 2013.
• “Jailed China dissident’s wife decries injustice in letter to Chinese President Xi,” Reuters report at AsiaOne, June 14, 2013.
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  Liu Xia, “Open Letter to Xi Jinping,” June 14, 2013.

  “Liu Xia Pens Open Letter to Xi Jinping,” by Sarah Hoffman, PEN America website, June 14, 2013. Includes an image of the handwritten letter and an English-language translation thereof.

• “US demands China to release Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo, his wife,” Economic Times, June 13, 2013.
• “China Sentences Brother-in-Law of Nobel Laureate to 11 Years on Fraud Charge,” by Edward Wong, New York Times, June 9, 2013.
• “Desmond Tutu’s plea: Stand up for Liu Xiaobo,” by Desmond M. Tutu and Jared Genser, Los Angeles Times, June 3, 2013.
• “Beijing’s Family Values,” editorial, Wall Street Journal, May 30, 2013. Available online to subscribers only.
• “Glimpses From the Life of China’s Jailed Nobel Laureate,” by Didi Kirsten Tatlow, International Herald Tribune, April 24, 2013.
• “Liu Xia defiant as she appears in public for first time in two years,” by Tania Branigan, The Guardian, April 23, 2013. Report on Liu Xia’s presence at her brother’s trial.
• “Liu Xia out in public for first time in 2.5 years, shouts ‘I’m not free,'” by James Griffiths, The Shanghaiist, April 23, 2013.
• “Liu Xia Attends Brother’s Trial in Chinese Capital,” by Xin Lin, Fung Yat-yiu, and Luisetta Mudie, Radio Free Asia, April 23, 2013.
• “Liu Xia attends trial,” The Standard (Hong Kong), April 23, 2013.
• “Brother-in-law of Liu Xiaobo faces up to 14 years in jail, says lawyer,” South China Morning Post, April 13, 2013.
• “PEN Protests Increased Pressure on Liu Xia,” by Sarah Hoffman, PEN America, March 29, 2013.
• “Chinese Nobel prizewinner Liu Xiaobo’s brother-in-law arrested on fraud charges,” Associated Press report in The Guardian (London), March 29, 2013.
• “AP NewsBreak: China jails Nobel winner’s relative,” by Isolda Morillo, Associated Press, March 29, 2013. Another report on the arrest of Liu Hui.
• “Relative of Jailed Chinese Laureate Faces Fraud Charges,” by Chris Buckley, New York Times, March 29, 2013. Report on the arrest of Liu Hui, Liu Xia’s younger brother, on charges stemming from an already-resolved real-estate dispute.
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  Unidentified police guard outside Liu Xia’s apartment, Beijing, screenshot, 5-25-12.

  “Visite à Liu Xia: l’un des dissidents interrogé par le Parti,” by Antonin Marot, JOL Press, March 25, 2013. Report on the interrogation of Hu Jia by the Beijing Department of Public security subsequent to his unauthorized visit to Liu Xia in December.

• “TVB journalist denies blocking way,” by Ada Lee, South China Morning Post, March 16, 2013. Report on another attempt to visit Liu Xia in her apartment.
• “‘It’s Painful For Me to Take a Phone Call,'” by Xin Yu and Luisetta Mudie, Radio Free Asia, March 15, 2013. Report on another attempt to visit Liu Xia in her apartment.
• “Beijing allowed month to decide on journo attacks,” by Beatrice Siu, The Standard (Hong Kong), March 13, 2013.
• “‘Troublesome’ Hong Kong activist Yang Kuang sent home from Beijing,” by Jennifer Ngo, Colleen Lee and Ng Kang-chung, South China Morning Post, March 11, 2013. Report on another attempt to visit Liu Xia in her apartment.
• “Police Detain Activists Near Lu Xia’s Home,”  by Xin Yu and Luisetta Mudie, Radio Free Asia, March 8, 2013. Report on another attempt to visit Liu Xia in her apartment.
• “2013年3月8日晚香港公民杨匡被众多北京国保带走,” video by Hu Jia, posted at YouTube on March 8, 2013. Shows the arrest of Hong Kong activist Yang Kuang for attempting to visit Liu Xia.
• “Hundreds of thousands call for Liu Xiaobo’s release,” Amnesty International, February 28, 2013.

• “行動施壓 還劉霞自由」 元旦「獄卒」激增 胡佳籲網友協力,” Mingpao (Hong Kong), January 2, 2013. In Chinese. This story offers information with which an interested party can find Liu Xia’s house, also indicating what surveillance is currently in place. Click here for a Google Translate machine version in English (sort of). And click on the following link or the image below for an enlarged version of the accompanying illustration, with helpful map and schematics.

Map to Liu Xia’s Beijing apartment, with schematic of building, Mingpao (Hong Kong), 1/2/13.

Liu Xia reacts to the unexpected visit by activists at her home in Beijing on December 28, 2012. Screenshot from video by Hu Jia.

• “行動施壓 還劉霞自由」 元旦「獄卒」激增 胡佳籲網友協力,” Mingpao (Hong Kong), January 2, 2013. In Chinese. This story offers information with which an interested party can find Liu Xia’s house, also indicating what surveillance is currently in place. Click here for a Google Translate machine version in English (sort of). And click here for an enlarged version of the accompanying graphic, with helpful map and schematics.
• “Hu Jia wants us all to go and visit Liu Xia and thereby ‘rescue’ her,” by James Griffiths, Shanghaist.com, January 4, 2013.
• “Who’s afraid of whom at the Lius’ home?” by Bonny Schoonakker, South China Morning Post, January 2, 2013.
• “Activists Visit Liu Xia,” by Xin Yu and Wei Ling, Radio Free Asia, January 1, 2013.
• “Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo’s wife receives visit by activists,” The Guardian (U.K.), December 31, 2012. Report by Agence France-Presse in Beijing.
• “Activists break security cordon around Liu Xia,” South China Morning Post, December 31, 2012. Report by Agence France-Presse in Beijing.
• “Activists Break Security Cordon Around Liu Xia,” by Samuel Wade, China Digital Times, December 31, 2012. Includes video of their December 28 visit.
• “2012年12月28日胡佳、徐友渔等网友架走保安，成功探访刘霞,” December 30, 2012. Posted at YouTube by Hu Jia. Video of their December 28 visit with Liu Xia.
• “December 28, 2012 Flash Mob Action to Visit Liu Xia,” Acopy.net, December 29, 2012. Includes video of their visit, directed by Hu Jia, with an English-language synopsis of the action plan and the short meeting by Xu Youyu. The unauthorized visitors included netizens Hu Jia, Hao Jian, Liu Di, and Xu Youyu.
• “2012年12月28日胡佳、徐友漁等網友架走保安，成功探訪劉霞,” Acopy.net, December 29, 2012. Includes video of their visit, directed by Hu Jia, with a Chinese-language synopsis of the action plan and the short meeting by Xu Youyu. The unauthorized visitors included netizens, Hu Jia, Hao Jian, Liu Di, and Xu Youyu.
• “China defiant over Liu Xiaobo after wife’s emotional plea,” London Telegraph, December 7, 2012.
• “A Growing Movement to Support Liu Xiaobo,” by Jared Genser (founder, Freedom Now; international counsel to Liu Xiaobo), Huffington Post, December 7, 2012.
• “AP Exclusive: China Nobel wife speaks on detention,” by Isolda Morillo and Alexa Olesen, Associated Press, December 6, 2012.
• “Wife of Chinese Nobel Prize Winner Speaks Out,” Associated Press, December 6, 2012. First video interview with Liu Xia since her 2010 detention under extralegal house arrest.
• “AP Exclusive: China Nobel wife speaks on detention,” by Isolda Morillo and Alexa Olesen, SFGate/San Francisco Chronicle, December 6, 2012.
• “Liu Xiaobo’s wife describes absurdity of house arrest,” by Tania Branigan, The Guardian (London), December 6, 2012.
• “Nobel peace prize winner’s wife Liu Xia describes ‘Kafkaesque’ house arrest,” by Malcolm Moore, The Telegraph (London), December 6, 2012.
• “美聯社記者潛入] 劉霞哭訴當局軟禁不合理（新聞合集),” NOW TV, December 6, 2012. In Chinese. Full video of unauthorized visit to Liu Xia, with commentary. (In Chinese.)
• “Outcry Over Liu Xia,” by Grace Kei Lai-see, Radio Free Asia, December 6, 2012.
• “Nobel winner’s fate casts shadow on China,” by Jamil Anderlini, Financial Times, October 12, 2012.
• “Nobel laureate’s wife at a window, the only freedom she is allowed,” Reporters Without Borders, October 12, 2012. Includes nighttime video of Liu Xia smoking at her apartment window.
• “China ‘steals wife’s freedom’ to pressurise Liu Xiaobo,” by Damian Grammaticas, BBC News China, October 8, 2012.
• “Don’t Let Liu Xia Stand Alone,” Initiatives for China email blast, June 16, 2012.
• Cui Weiping: The story of her attempt with Liu Di to visit Liu Xia (in Chinese), June 13, 2012. Posted at Stainless Rat, the blog of Liu Di.
• “A Letter to the British Council on the London Book Fair” from the Independent Chinese PEN Centre, Hong Kong, April 10, 2012.
• “Interview: Perry Link, on the New Book From Chinese Dissident Liu Xiaobo,” by Rebecca Chao, Asia Society, January 31, 2012. The editor of Liu Xiaobo’s 2012 book No Enemies, No Hatred: Selected Essays and Poems speaks about Liu Xiaobo and Liu Xia.
• “Held ‘hostage’ by China,” by Damian Grammaticas, BBC News Asia, December 9, 2011.
• “Statement for the Hearing of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China of the 112th Congress of the United States December 6, 2011,” by Perry Link. Testimony by Link about the life and work of Liu Xiaobo and Liu Xia. (This statement is based on Link’s Introduction to No Enemies, No Hatred: Selected Essays and Poems of Liu Xiaobo (Harvard University Press, 2012).
• “Testimony by Li Xiaorong for the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, December 6, 2011.”
• “China urged to release wife of jailed Nobel peace prize laureate,” by Tania Branigan, The Observer, October 4, 2011.
• “Jailed Nobel winner’s wife silenced by government-ordered isolation,” by Gillian Wong. Associated Press, October 2, 2011. As published in the Washington Times.
• “UN Declares Detention of Imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Wife Illegal; Calls for Immediate Release,” Freedom Now, August 1, 2011.
  

  Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Michael Posner, U.S. Embassy, Beijing, China, April 28, 2011.

• “Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Michael Posner, U.S. Embassy, Press Availability, Beijing, China,” transcript of press conference held at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing on April 28, 2011. Includes discussion of Liu Xia’s house arrest.
• “Liu Xia’s desperate internet message: ‘I’m crying. Nobody can help me,’” by Cynthia Haven, The Book Haven/Stanford University (blog), February 25th, 2011.
• “A Nobel Affair: Liu Xiaobo,” by Linda Jaivin, The Monthly, December 2010-January 2011
• No Empty Chair: http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/2010/12/11/china-no-empty-chair-allowed-online/
• “’I have no enemies’: Perry Link writes on his friend Liu Xiaobo and the Nobel’s empty chair,” by Cynthia Haven, The Book Haven/Stanford University (blog), December 17th, 2010.
• “Liu Xiaobo: for the love of wife and country,” by Charlie Foran, The National, December 11, 2010. Detailed account of the lives of Liu Xia and Liu Xiaobo.
• “China must release Liu Xiaobo – or lose its credibility,” by  Václav Havel and Desmond Tutu , The Observer, December 4, 2010.
• “Nobel Prize Is Slap in the Face for China,” by Andreas Lorenz, Spiegel Online, November 10, 2010.
• “Liu Xiaobo Shocks Chinese Society by Winning the Nobel Peace Prize,” by Ai Mi, China Digital Times, November 6, 2010. Detailed account by this noted novelist of the response in China to the news of this award.
• “Liu Xia, esposa del premio Nobel de la Paz, rechaza la idea del exilio,” CNN Mexico, October 13, 2010.
• “Liu Xia: the Chinese poet who found politics through love,” Sino Daily, October 13, 2010.
• “China Nobel Prize Tensions: Liu Xia Visits Liu Xiaobo, Placed Under House Arrest,” by Gillian Wong. Associated Press, October 10, 2010. As published in The Huffington Post.
• “From radical critic to moderate dissident,” by Jamil Anderlini and Geoff Dyer, Financial Times, October 8, 2010.
• “Jailed Chinese Dissident’s ‘Final Statement,’” by Robert Mackey, New York Times, October 8, 2010. Includes the complete text of Liu Xiaobo’s 2009 statement to the Beijing court upon his sentencing.
• “Darkness in Beijing The Chinese regime persecutes defenders of freedom,” by Guy Sorman, City Journal, July 11, 2010.
• “My dear husband Liu Xiaobo, the writer China has put behind bars,” profile of and interview with Liu Xia by Tania Branigan, The Observer, February 27, 2010.
• “Verdict Against Liu Xiaobo,” Beijing Municipality First Intermediate People’s Court Verdict in Criminal Case, December 25, 2009.
• “China targets political foes after dissident trial,” by Chris Buckley, Reuters, December 28, 2009.

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