The Man Who Defied Beijing
China would like the world to forget his name
6.5
2 votes
May 14, 2019
59m
Overview
A portrait of Chinese writer Liu Xiaobo (1955-2017), a witness of the Tiananmen Square massacre (1989), a dissident, a woodpecker who tirelessly pecked the putrid brain of the Communist regime for decades, demanding democracy loudly and fearlessly. Silenced, arrested, convicted, imprisoned, dead. Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2010, alive forever. These are his last words.
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Perry Link
Self - Sinologist and Liu's TranslatorHao Jian
Self - Film Critic and ScreenwriterJean-Philippe Béja
Self - SinologistXu Youyu
Self - PhilosopherAndrew Nathan
Self - SinologistBei Ling
Self - PoetHu Ping
Self - Journalist
Wu'er Kaixi
Self - Student Leader (1989)Liao Yiwu
Self - WriterYu Jie
Self - EssayistTeng Biao
Self - Professor of LawXia Yeliang
Self - EconomistChris May
Self - DiplomaticLiu Xia
Self - Poet and Liu's Wife
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