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Liu Binyan published influential critiques of the consequences of Party management in the 1950s. In rapid succession he encountered recognition, approval, criticism, and finally prosecution for crimes against the Party. In October 1955, he acted as the interpreter for visiting Soviet writer
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In 1956 he published "On the Bridge Worksite" (《在桥梁工地上》 "Zai qiaoliang gongdi shang"), which exposed bureaucratism and corruption, and "The Inside Story of Our Newspaper" ( 《本报内部消息》 "Benbao neibu xiaoxi"), about press control. The two works had a powerful nationwide impact.
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was widely read in China, and was broadly re-distributed following initial publication. "What was powerful about Liu's piece was it universality: everyone in China knew people like Wang Shouxin, and it made everyone think of all those who had not been brought to justice."
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In January 1987, as part of Deng Xiaoping's crackdown on "bourgeois liberalism," Liu Binyan was again expelled from the CCP. In spring of 1988 he came to the United States for teaching and writing; then, after publicly denouncing the Chinese government for the
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detention camp, where he spent eight years. After being rehabilitated again, he built up a sound reputation as a reformer and a corruption watchdog. From 1957 on, he spent roughly 21 years in and out of labor camps.
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to expel them from the CCP, but Hu refused. Because of his refusal, Hu was dismissed from his position as General Secretary, effectively ending his period of influence within the Chinese government.
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province, where he went to school until the ninth grade, after which he had to withdraw for lack of tuition money. He persisted in reading voraciously, especially works about
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According to Liu, "'On the Bridge Construction Site' had been the first piece to criticize the Party itself since Mao Zedong had laid down the dictum in 1942 in his '
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In 1957, following the publication of "On the Bridge Worksite" and "The Inside Story of Our Newspaper," Liu was labeled a "rightist" and expelled from the CCP (see
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In 1978, after the "rightist" label was removed, Liu was re-admitted to the CCP but continued, in even starker terms than before, to write "
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In December 1986, college students demonstrated in over a dozen Chinese cities in order to demand greater economic and political freedoms.
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was the first in a series of works describing corruption and social problems, and was noteworthy for its use of fact-based reporting (
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cynicism in China, and stressed that the CCP, which he had joined as a youth, had many positive achievements before the
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Charles Laughlin (2008). "The revolutionary tradition in modern Chinese literature". In Louie, Kam (ed.).
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The prominent Chinese dissident writer, Liu Binyan, has died at the age of 80 in the US, reports say. (
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province, was born in 1925, on the fifteenth of the first month of the lunar calendar, in the city of
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on December 5, 2005 from complications due to colon cancer. He is survived by his wife, Zhu Hong.
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After being rehabilitated in the 1960s, he again fell out of favor in 1969 and was condemned to a
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crimes and its transformation into the "foul, reactionary force" that it was today.
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Liu Binyan. 2004. Two Kinds of Truth. P.21 (interviewed by Perry Link)
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The Chinese Century: A Photographic History of the Last Hundred Years
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A Higher Kind of Loyalty: A Memoir by China's Foremost Journalist
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Pioneers of Modern China: Understanding the Inscrutable Chinese
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Many of the events in Liu's life are recounted in his memoir,
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media, and offered commentary for the U.S. government funded
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He published articles critical of Chinese corruption for the
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Interview with Liu Binyan. New Left Review, July–August 1992
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Liu Binyan, a Fierce Insider Critic of China, Dies at 80
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Su Xiaokang. Unnatural Exile: in memory of Liu Binyan
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