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SFU department of history hosts a conversation on Liu Xiaobo

Written by: Kelly Chia, Staff Writer On May 27, 2021, SFU hosted an event featuring professors Jeremy Brown and Perry Link in a conversation. They discussed Link’s forthcoming biography, co-authored by Wu Dazhi. It is about Liu Xiaobo, a figure of political liberation in China. Liu won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2010 for his defense of human rights and died in 2017 while serving eleven years of imprisonment for subverting state authorities.  This is the final lecture in the series Witnesses to History — the SFU department of history’s annual public lecture series. The series “focuses on eyewitness accounts…

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