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The Man Who Defied Beijing

201959mPierre Haski

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"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.

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BiographyPolitical ActivistNobel Peace PrizeCommunist ChinaPolitical RepressionPortrait Of An ArtistCelebrity InterviewTiananmen SquarePersecuted WriterLast Interview

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What is The Man Who Defied Beijing (2019) about?

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.

Who stars in The Man Who Defied Beijing?

The Man Who Defied Beijing stars Perry Link (Self - Sinologist and Liu's Translator), Hao Jian (Self - Film Critic and Screenwriter), Jean-Philippe Béja (Self - Sinologist), Xu Youyu (Self - Philosopher), Andrew Nathan (Self - Sinologist). The film was directed by Pierre Haski.

How long is The Man Who Defied Beijing?

The Man Who Defied Beijing has a runtime of 59 min and premiered in 2019.

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