Liu Binyan

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Liu Binyan ( Chinese  劉賓雁  /  刘宾雁 , Pinyin Líu Bīnyàn , born February 23, 1925 in Changchun , Jilin ; † December 5, 2005 in Trenton , New Jersey ) was a Chinese dissident and journalist and an important author in China.

Life

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

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

In 1988 he had the opportunity to go to Harvard University as a "Nieman Fellow", but after the Tian'anmen uprising in the spring of 1989 , a return was impossible for him . He stayed as a dissident in the USA and worked, among other things, for the US daily "Duowei Times" (新聞), which is published in Chinese. As an author, he was particularly successful with his work "China! My China!" (1989) known internationally.

Works

literature

  • Carolin Blank, Christa Gescher: Social criticism in the People's Republic of China. The journalist and writer Liu Binyan. Brockmeyer, Bochum 1991, ISBN 3883399639

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Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Liu is the family name here, Binyan is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Liu Binyan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Changchun , China
DATE OF DEATH December 5, 2005
Place of death Trenton , New Jersey