

The Man Who Defied Beijing(2019)
China would like the world to forget his name
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.



Movie: The Man Who Defied Beijing
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Self - Sinologist and Liu's Translator
Self - Film Critic and Screenwriter
Self - Sinologist
Self - Philosopher
Self - Sinologist
Self - Poet
Self - Journalist
Self - Writer
Self - Essayist
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