Liao yiwu biography sample

Chinese musician and writer (born 1958)

In this Chinese name, the family name is Liao.

Liao Yiwu (Chinese: 廖亦武; pinyin: Liào Yìwǔ; also known as Lao Wei (Chinese: 老威); born 16 June 1958) is a Chinese author, reporter, musician, and poet.^[1] He is a critic of China's Communist Party, for which he was imprisoned in 1990.

His books, several of which are collections of interviews with ordinary people from the lower rungs of Chinese society, were published in Taiwan and Hong Kong but are banned in mainland China; some have been translated into Spanish, English, French, German, Polish and Czech.

He has been living in Germany since April 2011.

Liao Yiwu, writing from exile in Berlin, writes a hair-raising account of his imprisonment in China for having written a poem that detailed the Tiananmen Square.

I was only 3 or four years old, maybe.

It's a memoir of Liao Yiwu's life, from poet in China just before the Tienanmen Square protests, to his imprisonment for 4 years as a "counter-revolutionary".

Here are some wonderful examples he has elicited: “An ant that nibbles away at totalitarianism.” Liao Yiwu, Chinese poet sent to prison for a poem of protest.

Liao Yiwu is an author, reporter, musician, and poet.

Early life and education

Liao Yiwu was born in 1958, the same year as The Great Leap Forward.^[2] During the famine of The Great Leap Forward, he suffered from edema and was close to dying.

In 1966, his father was branded a counter-revolutionary during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Liao's