Liu Binyan was a Chinese author and journalist, as well as a political dissident. Liu Binyan, whose family hails from Shandong province, was born in 1925, on the fifteenth of the first month of the lunar calendar, in the city of Changchun, Jilin Province. He grew up in Harbin in Heilongjiang province, where he went to school until the ninth grade, after which he had to withdraw for lack of tuition money. Wikipedia
Although Liu Binyan was fted among dissidents and many of Chinas intellectuals as a liberal hero, the story behind his banishment for the last 17 years of his life was complicated. www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1910323,00.html
The prominent Chinese dissident writer, Liu Binyan, has died at the age of 80 in the US, reports say. news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4501318.stm
The definitive Wikipedia entry for Liu Binyan. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Binyan
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The fearless and outspoken Chinese journalist Liu Binyan, who has died aged 80, had the distinction of being twice named by a senior Chinese leader for daring to speak out. www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,,1660351,00.html
