I Have No Enemies : The Life and Legacy of Liu Xiaobo / Perry Link and Wu Dazhi.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Perry Link and Wu Dazhi present a wide-ranging intellectual biography of Liu Xiaobo, the deceased Nobel Peace Prize winner, alongside a recent history of dissent in China. Link and Wu follow Liu's upbringing among early Republican intellectuals, to his deep immersion in classical Chinese poetry and philosophy in graduate school, to his involvement in prodemocracy movements in China, to his persecution, imprisonment, and death in captivity. They also provide an absorbing and up-close, inside look at the second major undulation of contemporary China's democracy movement-the "Citizens' Movement" of 2002-2008, culminating in Charter '08-which has not yet been chronicled and explained either inside or outside of China in a comprehensive way. Most accounts of dissent in China, to date, of course, have concentrated on the street demonstrations of the late 1980s that ended with the Tiananmen massacre of June 4, 1989. This book carries the story forward in absorbing detail up until recent times. In this respect, the book is a history of a generation of Chinese intellectuals as much as a history of one man's influence. It is a fascinating portrait of Liu Xiaobo's iconic life and times in a rapidly changing and increasingly authoritarian Chinese state"-- Provided by publisher.