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Xi Jinping is ‘an idiot’ and 'my biggest promotor' — writer Liao Yiwu

Commentary In the Xi Jinping empire, the Wuhan virus (COVID-19) has undergone a three-year mutation. Instead of the ...

Commentary On Nov. 24, in the Jixiang Garden district at the heart of the city of Urumqi in ...

As a poet and chronicler of other people’s lives, Liao Yiwu is a singular figure among the generation of Chinese intellectuals who emerged after the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989. Unlike the leaders of Beijing’s student movement, people like Wang Dan and Wuer Kaixi, Liao had no part in organizing street demonstrations and has never explicitly engaged in political activism.

by Lian Xi This article was first published in the December 22, 2011 issue of This autumn, China has been marking the one hundredth anniversary of the collapse of its last imperial dynasty, the Qing, with a series of grand celebrations. The government has released an epic film showing how the revolution of 1911 prepared the way for the Communists’ takeover in 1949. It’s also just opened a museum about the uprising in the Yangtze metropolis of Wuhan where the revolution started. And the National Library in Beijing is hosting an exhibition with the not-so-subtle title “Awakening of the ...