Harvard U. Press to Publish a Book by Liu Xiaobo

Harvard University Press plans to publish a book of translated writings by the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo.

The Chinese activist and author remains in prison serving an 11-year sentence for “inciting subversion of state power.” The collection was compiled by his wife, Liu Xia, now under house arrest, and by Tien-ch’i Liao, president of the Independent Chinese PEN Center. The translation team was overseen by Perry Link, a China scholar and a professor at the University of California at Riverside.

“Until he won the Nobel Peace Prize, Liu Xiaobo was little known in the West,” Link commented. This collection, he said, offers English-language readers the full range of Liu’s “astute and penetrating analyses of culture, politics, and society in China today.”

The book, as yet untitled, is likely to publish in early 2012 and will include several of the articles cited as evidence in Liu’s court case, as well as the text of the verdict against him.