Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 34. Chapters: Zhao Ziyang, Liu Xiaobo, Ai Weiwei, Joseph Zen Ze-kiun, Hu Jia, Arrest and trial of Chen Ziming and Wang Juntao, Wang Dan, Chai Ling, Huang Qi, Sheng Xue, Tang Baiqiao, Liu Xianbin, Wei Jingsheng, John Tong Hon, Guo Quan, Wu'erkaixi, Wang Wanxing, Wang Bingzhang, Zhao Changqing, Fang Lizhi, Ouyang Yi, Cai Lujun, Guo Guoting, Li Datong. Excerpt: Liu Xiaobo (pronunciation: born 28 December 1955) is a Chinese literary critic, writer, professor, and human rights activist who called for political reforms and the end of communist one-party rule in the People's Republic of China (PRC). He is currently incarcerated as a political prisoner in the PRC. Mr. Liu has served from 2003 to 2007 as President of the Independent Chinese PEN Center, an organization funded by the National Endowment for Democracy, an organization almost entirely funded by the US Congress. He was also the President of NED-funded MinZhuZhongGuo ("Democratic China") Magazine since the mid-1990s. On 8 December 2008, Liu was detained in response to his participation with the Charter 08 manifesto. He was formally arrested on 23 June 2009, on suspicion of "inciting subversion of state power." He was tried on the same charges on 23 December 2009, and sentenced to eleven years' imprisonment and two years' deprivation of political rights on 25 December 2009. During his 4th prison term, he was awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, for "his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China." He is the first Chinese citizen to be awarded a Nobel Prize of any kind while residing in China. He is the fourth person to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize while in prison or detention, after Germany's Carl von Ossietzky (1935), the Soviet Union's Andrei Sakharov (1975), and Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi (1991). Liu is also the first person since Ossietzky to...