Liu Xia

Quick Facts

Full Name	Liu Xia
Occupation	Painter
Date Of Birth	Apr 1, 1961(1961-04-01)
Age	63
Birthplace	Beijing
Country	People's Republic of China
Horoscope	Aries

Liu Xia Biography

Liu Xia is one of the most popular and richest Painter who was born on April 1, 1961 in Beijing, People's Republic of China. Nick Frisch, “Liu Xia Rebuilds Her Career as an Artist” The New Yorker (30 04 2019). Introduce Liu’s poems and artworks, including 11 photographs.

Liu Xiaobo’s last sentence, of 11 years, was imposed after he helped write the 2008 political manifesto called Charter 08. Liu Xia begged her husband to not participate in drafting the document. After initially heeding her pleas, he went forward anyway, immersing himself for three years drafting and re- drafting the document, which he later persuaded more than 300 prominent workers, Chinese Communist Party members, and intellectuals to sign. The document was later “signed” by 10,000 users on the Internet.

The Nobel Prize for Peace 2010 ceremony: empty chair on the stage booked for Liu Xiaobo, who was in prison on that time; Chinese government also didn’t allow Liu Xia travel to Oslo, putting her under house arrest.

Although Liu Xia is not generally seen as a social activist in her own right, unlike her late husband, and has never been accused or convicted of any crime, she has endured house arrest without charges and subject to 24-hour surveillance since 2010, in contravention of Article 39 of the 1982 Constitution of China, which states that “the freedom of movement of any law- abiding Chinese citizen shall not be infringed”, as well as Article 252 of the Criminal Prosecution Ordinance, which states that “any act of violating the freedom of communication of any law-abiding Chinese citizen is strictly prohibited”. She is denied access to a phone or a computer.

The Silent Strength of Liu Xia is a collection of 25 black-and-white photographs Liu Xia produced between 1996 and 1999 while her husband served his second stint in a labor re-education camp. It is the only exhibition of Liu Xia’s photographic work in the United States. French scholar Guy Sorman, a longtime friend of Liu Xia and her husband, transported the prints out of China and curated the exhibition at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies at Columbia University.

Liu Xia Net Worth

Liu Xia is one of the richest Painter from People's Republic of China. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Liu Xia 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Liu Xia (Chinese: 刘霞 ; born 1 April 1961, Beijing, China) is a Chinese painter, poet, and photographer. Liu Xia was under effective house arrest in China as her husband, Liu Xiaobo, had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2010. She remained under house arrest until 10 July 2018, when she was allowed to travel to Germany for medical treatment.

Liu was formerly a civil servant in the Beijing tax bureau, and met her husband Liu Xiaobo while part of the Beijing literary scene in the 1980s. She married Liu Xiaobo while he was imprisoned in China in a labor re-education camp in 1996.

German writer Herta Müller won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2009 for story of hard life in authoritarian Romania during communist rule.

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Who is Liu Xia Dating?

According to our records, Liu Xia married to Liu Xiaobo. As of December 1, 2023, Liu Xia’s is not dating anyone.

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On 19 November 2013, she filed an appeal for Liu Xiaobo’s retrial, a move that’s been called “extraordinary” because the action could refocus the world’s attention on China’s human rights record. According to her attorney, Mo Shaoping, Liu Xia visited her husband in Jinzhou Prison in Liaoning and had gained his approval before filing this motion. In December 2013, a friend of hers, Hu, told BBC that three years of house arrest had thrown Liu into deep depression and a health professional had been prescribing anti-depressant medication for her.

Facts & Trivia

Liu Ranked on the list of most popular Painter. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in People's Republic of China. Liu Xia celebrates birthday on April 1 of every year.

After Liu Xiaobo’s ocean burial, Liu Xia, — as said her friend Liao Yiwu, Chinese poet and dissident living in exile in Germany, — had lived a while in Dali City in Yunnan province together with her younger brother Liu Hui, and when Liu Xia’s friends and family had said that she returned to Beijing on 4 August 2017, German and US diplomats tried to visit her flat but were stopped by guards. German embassy diplomats said they would try to push the Chinese government to grant freedom of movement for Liu Xia, although Chinese officials said that Liu Xia was free and could move according to the Chinese law.

Who is Liu Xia badiucao?

Badiucao, a pen name, is a prolific satirist who lives in Australia and, fearing for his safety, declines to give his real name. His works depicting Ms Liu are in collaboration with Amnesty International. To make his message universal, he has chosen portraits from different cultures.

Where is Liu Xia?

Liu Xia left China and flew to Germany for medical treatment on 10 July 2018. The same day, her younger brother, Liu Hui, remaining in China, wrote in social media WeChat, that Liu Xia flew to Europe to start her new life there, and that he was grateful to all who were helping Liu Xia these past years.

Who wrote Charter 08?

In 2009, one of the authors of Charter 08, Liu Xiaobo, was sentenced to eleven years’ imprisonment for “inciting subversion of state power” because of his involvement. A year later, Liu was awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize by the Norwegian Nobel Committee.

Who wrote Charter 77?

Founding members and architects were Jiří Němec, Václav Benda, Ladislav Hejdánek, Václav Havel, Jan Patočka, Zdeněk Mlynář, Jiří Hájek, Martin Palouš, Pavel Kohout, and Ladislav Lis. Spreading the text of the document was considered a political crime by the Czechoslovak government.