When she was put under house arrest for no reason other than being married to a Nobel-winning Chinese dissident, the poet Liu Xia said her captivity was so ridiculous that “Kafka could not have written anything more absurd.”
That was in 2012, when she was in captivity in Beijing and her husband, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, was still alive.
But on Wednesday, Liu made her first major public appearance as a free woman in New York. She was allowed to leave China in July, a year after her husband died of liver cancer under the close watch of the Chinese authorities.
But even at the New York event, Liu appeared circumspect.
Appearing in a talk titled “The Power of the Powerles
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Sep 27, 2018