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ChinaFile Presents: The Future of Dissent Inside and Outside of China
A discussion with authors Liao Yiwu and Ian Johnson

Liao Yiwu poses during a photo session in Paris, April 2, 2019. Lionel Bonaventure/AFP via Getty Images
Event Details
IN-PERSON
Wed 12 Jul 2023; 6:30 – 8 p.m.
Asia Society
725 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10021
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$15 Nonmembers; $8 Students and Seniors; Free for Members
Please join us for a discussion with internationally acclaimed Chinese author Liao Yiwu, co-hosted by PEN America. A reporter, novelist, poet, and musician, Liao is best known for The Corpse Walker, his 2008 collection of interviews with laborers, migrants, and other people living at the margins of China’s economic boom, and for For a Song and a Hundred Songs, a memoir of the prison term he served for his writings about the Tiananmen protests. Since 2011, he has lived in exile in Berlin.
In conversation with the Council on Foreign Relations’ Ian Johnson, Liao will discuss the role of political dissent in exile, the use of fiction as a means for grappling with history, as well as his recent novels Wuhan, about the outbreak of COVID-19, and Love in the Times of Mao Zedong, set during the Cultural Revolution, and his documentary film on the construction of a Taiwanese memorial to Nobel Peace Prize-winning dissident Liu Xiaobo.
The conversation will be conducted in Chinese and English with translation, and is co-hosted by ChinaFile and PEN America. Continue reading →