Perry Link (UC Riverside), Jeremy Brown (Simon Fraser University)

Liu Xiaobo, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010 and died in 2017 while serving an eleven-year prison sentence for “inciting subversion of state power,” may be China’s most important political thinker of the last half century.
In conversation with host Jeremy Brown (SFU History), Perry Link (University of California, Riverside) discusses his forthcoming biography of Liu Xiaobo. Link and coauthor Wu Dazhi argue that Liu Xiaobo’s place in history ought to be on a par with those of Nelson Mandela, Vaclav Havel, Andrei Sakharov and others who endured prison in their attempts to bring political liberation to their nations.