{"id":16,"date":"2012-04-09T21:56:02","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T01:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/?page_id=16"},"modified":"2012-06-18T07:40:50","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T11:40:50","slug":"about-liu-xia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/about-liu-xia\/","title":{"rendered":"About Liu Xia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Born in 1959 in Beijing, Liu Xia is a poet, painter and photographer, and the wife of 2010 Nobel Peace Prize Winner Liu Xiaobo.\u00a0She began writing poetry and fiction in 1981, took up photography in 1990, and later devoted herself to painting.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_454\" style=\"width: 135px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/LXB-poems.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-454\" class=\" wp-image-454 \" title=\"LXB-poems\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/LXB-poems-209x300.jpg\" alt=\"Liu Xiaobo and Liu Xia, Selected Poems, 2000.\" width=\"125\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/LXB-poems-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/LXB-poems-104x150.jpg 104w, https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/LXB-poems.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 125px) 100vw, 125px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-454\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Liu Xiaobo and Liu Xia, Selected Poems, 2000.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For over three decades Liu Xia has been one of the most notable figures of the contemporary Chinese artworld. Her work in various media focuses on freedom of expression but remains rooted in traditional Chinese values and styles.\u00a0Her major works include\u00a0<em>Liu Xiaobo Liu Xia shixuan<\/em>\u00a0[Selected Poems of Liu Xiaobo and Liu Xia], published by Xiafei\u2019er International Press, Hong Kong, (2000), and\u00a0<em>Fang Da<\/em>\u00a0[Enlarged], a photography collection.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Nobel_Peace_Prize_medallion.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-376\" title=\"Nobel_Peace_Prize_medallion\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Nobel_Peace_Prize_medallion.jpeg\" alt=\"Nobel Peace Prize medallion\" width=\"148\" height=\"148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Nobel_Peace_Prize_medallion.jpeg 211w, https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Nobel_Peace_Prize_medallion-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 148px) 100vw, 148px\" \/><\/a>Liu Xia is prohibited from public exhibit in China and her work is shown only in private or on the Internet. She met the writer and activist\u00a0Liu Xiaobo in 1982.\u00a0In 1996, they married while Liu Xiaobo was imprisoned for his writings in favor of democracy. Since his arrest, Liu Xia has become her husband\u2019s spokesman to the outside world. After Liu Xiaobo was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010, Liu Xia, though never charged or convicted in China, was put under house arrest. She has been deprived of all means of contact with the outside world since January 2010.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\"><em>The world open around us,<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\"><em>We communicate in gestures.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\">\u2014 Liu Xia<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2022<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_534\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/2010-634273310693818414-381.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-534\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-534\" title=\"2010-634273310693818414-381\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/2010-634273310693818414-381-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"Liu Xiaobo and Liu Xia in an undated photo released by his family.\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/2010-634273310693818414-381-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/2010-634273310693818414-381-150x89.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/2010-634273310693818414-381-400x239.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/2010-634273310693818414-381.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-534\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Liu Xiaobo and Liu Xia in an undated photo released by his family.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>N\u00e9e en 1959 \u00e0 P\u00e9kin, Liu Xia est po\u00e8te, artiste-peintre et photographe.<\/p>\n<p>Depuis les ann\u00e9es 1980, elle est une des figures les plus notoires du nouveau monde artistique chinois, \u00e9pris de libert\u00e9 d\u2019expression mais ancr\u00e9 dans la tradition.<\/p>\n<p>Jusqu\u2019\u00e0 la r\u00e9pression de la r\u00e9volte \u00e9tudiante de Tian Anmen, en juin 1989, Liu Xia et les artistes de sa g\u00e9n\u00e9ration \u00e9taient publi\u00e9s et exposaient leurs travaux \u00e0 P\u00e9kin ; mais depuis 1989, la censure r\u00e8gne. Liu Xia est interdite d\u2019exposition publique en Chine et ses oeuvres ne sont montr\u00e9es qu\u2019en priv\u00e9 ou sur Internet.<\/p>\n<p>En 1996, Liu Xia a \u00e9pous\u00e9 l\u2019\u00e9crivain Liu Xiaobo, incarc\u00e9r\u00e9 pour ses \u00e9crits favorables \u00e0 la d\u00e9mocratie : elle est devenue depuis lors son porte-parole aupr\u00e8s du monde ext\u00e9rieur. Apr\u00e8s l\u2019attribution du Prix Nobel de la paix 2010 \u00e0 Liu Xiaobo, Liu Xia, bien que jamais inculp\u00e9e ni condamn\u00e9e en Chine, a \u00e9t\u00e9 assign\u00e9e \u00e0 r\u00e9sidence : elle est priv\u00e9e de tout moyen de communication depuis janvier 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><em>Alors que le monde s\u2019ouvre de toutes parts<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><em>Nous (Chinois) nous ne pouvons communiquer que par gestes<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 210px; text-align: left;\">\u2014 Liu Xia<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2022<\/p>\n<p>\u5289\u971e<\/p>\n<p>1959\u5e74\u51fa\u751f\u65bc\u5317\u4eac\uff0c\u8a69\u4eba\u3001\u756b\u5bb6\u548c\u651d\u5f71\u5bb6\uff0c2010\u5e74\u8afe\u8c9d\u723e\u548c\u5e73\u734e\u7372\u5f97\u8005\u5289\u66c9\u6ce2\u7684\u59bb\u5b50\u3002\u4e09\u5341\u591a\u5e74\u4f86\uff0c\u5289\u971e\u4e00\u76f4\u662f\u4e2d\u570b\u7576\u4ee3\u85dd\u8853\u754c\u6700\u5f15\u4eba\u77da\u76ee\u7684\u4eba\u7269\u4e4b\u4e00\uff0c\u5979\u7684\u4f5c\u54c1\u51fa\u73fe\u65bc\u5404\u7a2e\u5a92\u9ad4\uff0c\u6ce8\u91cd\u8868\u73fe\u8a00\u8ad6\u81ea\u7531\uff0c\u4f46\u662f\u4f9d\u7136\u6839\u690d\u65bc\u4e2d\u570b\u50b3\u7d71\u50f9\u503c\u548c\u98a8\u683c\u3002\u5289\u971e\u5728\u4e2d\u570b\u88ab\u7981\u6b62\u516c\u958b\u5c55\u51fa\u4f5c\u54c1\uff0c\u56e0\u800c\u5979\u7684\u4f5c\u54c1\u53ea\u80fd\u79c1\u4e0b\u5c55\u51fa\u6216\u767c\u8868\u5728\u7db2\u7d61\u4e4b\u4e0a\u30021996\u5e74\uff0c\u5289\u971e\u5ac1\u7d66\u4e86\u4f5c\u5bb6\u5289\u66c9\u6ce2\uff0c\u5289\u66c9\u6ce2\u56e0\u5beb\u4f5c\u5021\u5c0e\u6c11\u4e3b\u800c\u88ab\u7e6b\u5728\u7344\u3002\u81ea\u5289\u66c9\u6ce2\u88ab\u6355\u4ee5\u540e\uff0c\u5289\u971e\u6210\u4e86\u5979\u4e08\u592b\u7684\u5c0d\u5916\u767c\u8a00\u4eba\u3002\u5289\u66c9\u6ce2\u57282010\u5e74\u7372\u5f97\u8afe\u8c9d\u723e\u548c\u5e73\u734e\u4e4b\u5f8c\uff0c\u5289\u971e\u88ab\u8edf\u7981\u5728\u5bb6\uff0c\u96d6\u7136\u5f9e\u672a\u6709\u4efb\u4f55\u6307\u63a7\uff0c\u4e5f\u5f9e\u672a\u6709\u4efb\u4f55\u5b9a\u7f6a\u3002\u81ea2011\u5e741\u6708\u8d77\uff0c\u5979\u88ab\u525d\u596a\u4e86\u4e00\u5207\u8207\u5916\u754c\u806f\u7d61\u7684\u65b9\u5f0f\u3002<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\"><em>\u201c\u4e16\u754c\u56db\u9762\u655e\u958b<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\"><em>\u6211\u5011\u5728\u624b\u52e2\u4e2d\u4ea4\u6d41\u3002\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\">\u5289\u971e<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2022<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2011\/nov\/12\/your-lifelong-prisoner-liu-xiaobo\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Your Lifelong Prisoner&#8221;<\/a>: One of Liu Xiaobo&#8217;s poems to Liu Xia from prison.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/album\/1577406\/video\/33217425\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Your Lifelong Prisoner&#8221;<\/a>: Video of reading, by John Siddique, of this poem by Liu Xiaobo, with slideshow.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecasket.co.uk\/liu-xiaobo\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;You Wait for Me with Dust&#8221;<\/a>: Another of Liu Xiaobo&#8217;s poems to Liu Xia from prison. With audiofiles of readings in English and Welsh, plus downloadable PDFs of this poem in English, Welsh, and Chinese.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asialiteraryreview.com\/web\/article\/en\/209\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;You Wait for Me with Dust&#8221;<\/a>: Another online publication of Liu Xiaobo&#8217;s poems to Liu Xia from prison. With an audiofile of a reading of this poem in English.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0VgELQ_4UoM&amp;feature=player_embedded\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;You Wait for Me with Dust&#8221;<\/a>: Video of a reading of this poem in English by PEN American Center\u2019s outgoing president, Kwame Anthony Appiah, and incoming president, Peter Godwin,\u00a0March 20, 2012.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_u_-RIHeAUk\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;You Wait for Me with Dust&#8221;<\/a>: Video of a reading of this poem in English by 14 actors at the Notional Theatre of Wales, Cardiff, March 2o, 2012.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pen.org\/viewmedia.php\/prmMID\/4014\/prmID\/172\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;One Letter is Enough, Longing to Escape, A Small Rat in Prison, and Daybreak&#8221;<\/a>: More\u00a0of Liu Xiaobo&#8217;s poems to Liu Xia from prison.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pen.org\/viewmedia.php\/prmMID\/4014\/prmID\/172\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;One Letter is Enough, Longing to Escape, and Daybreak&#8221;<\/a>:\u00a0With an audiofile of a reading by\u00a0Paul Auster<strong>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/poetry.about.com\/gi\/o.htm?zi=1\/XJ&amp;zTi=1&amp;sdn=poetry&amp;cdn=education&amp;tm=300&amp;f=00&amp;tt=11&amp;bt=0&amp;bts=0&amp;st=37&amp;zu=http%3A\/\/www.pen.org\/viewmedia.php\/prmMID\/4456\/prmID\/172\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cDaybreak&#8221;<\/a>: Audiofile of a reading by Edward Albee.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pen.org\/viewmedia.php\/prmMID\/4458\/prmID\/172\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cLonging To Escape\u201d<\/a>: Audiofile of a reading by Don DeLillo.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pen.org\/viewmedia.php\/prmMID\/4460\/prmID\/172\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cOne Letter\u201d<\/a>: Audiofile of a reading by E. L. Doctorow.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.liuxiaobo.eu\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=51%3A2010-07-10-12-45-21&amp;catid=29%3Aworks&amp;Itemid=69&amp;lang=en\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;To My Wife&#8221; and &#8220;Night and Dawn\u00a0&#8211; To Little Xia&#8221;<\/a>: More of Liu Xiaobo&#8217;s poems to Liu Xia from prison.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pen.org.au\/static\/files\/assets\/6f56b7df\/ICPC_Journal_Summer_Issue_2010.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">PEN for Freedom: A Quarterly Journal of Literary Translations, No. 2<\/a>, published by the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/\" target=\"_blank\">Independent Chinese PEN Centre<\/a> in Hong Kong. Summer 2010 issue. Includes four poems to Liu Xia from Liu Xiaobo, and one from her to him.\u00a0PDF download.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.liuxiaobo.eu\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=224%3Apen-for-freedom-no4&amp;catid=30%3Apen-for-freedom&amp;Itemid=134&amp;lang=en&amp;showall=1\" target=\"_blank\">PEN for Freedom: A Quarterly Journal of Literary Translations, No. 4<\/a>, published by the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/\" target=\"_blank\">Independent Chinese PEN Centre<\/a>\u00a0in Hong Kong. Winter 2010 issue. &#8220;Special Issue for Celebrating Dr Liu Xiaobo being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010.&#8221;\u00a0Includes five poems to Liu Xia from Liu Xiaobo, and one from her to him, plus texts by Liu Xia and other authors.\u00a0\u00a0Downloadable as\u00a0PDF.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born in 1959 in Beijing, Liu Xia is a poet, painter and photographer, and the wife of 2010 Nobel Peace Prize Winner Liu Xiaobo. She began writing poetry and fiction in 1981, took up photography in 1990, and later devoted herself to painting.<\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-454\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Liu Xiaobo and Liu Xia, Selected Poems, 2000.<\/p>\n<p>For over [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}