Volume 53, Number 2 · February 9, 2006
Liu Binyan (1925–2005)
By Perry Link
Liu Binyan, the distinguished Chinese journalist and writer who died of cancer on December 5, 2005, in exile in New Jersey, at the age of eighty, was an inveterate defender of the poor and the oppressed, a man with a powerful analytic mind. But the trait that most determined his course through life was his bent for speaking out combined with his utter inability to say anything that he thought to be false. This was so even in small matters. During his last visit with me he said, 'You're a Sinologist, but I have never tasted really good Chinese tea at your house.'
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