HOUSE ARREST: The highlight of the event was the screening of a video featuring Liu Xiaobo’s wife reciting her own poems at her residence in Beijing
Taipei Times
Date: Feb 12, 2018
By: Stacy Hsu / Staff reporter
Several Chinese poets yesterday held a reading in Taipei to commemorate Nobel Peace Prize laureate Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo (劉曉波) as they promoted a new collection of more than 400 poems written in his honor.
The reading took place on the closing day of the Taipei International Book Exhibition, featuring recitals of poems by Liu and his wife, Liu Xia (劉霞), by Chinese writers Mo Zhixu (莫之許), Meng Lang (孟浪), Bei Ling (貝嶺) and others.
A few poems from the collection, titled Men of the Same Era: A Poetry Collection in Memory of Liu Xiaobo (同時代人：劉曉波紀念詩集), which was published in Taiwan on Monday last week, were also read out at the event.
“The reason why we chose to unveil this book here at the exhibition is because we believe it is the event in Asia that best symbolizes freedom of publication,” said Mo, who compiled the collection. [FULL STORY]