{"id":958,"date":"2014-05-27T17:30:39","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T17:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=958"},"modified":"2014-05-27T17:30:39","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T17:30:39","slug":"the-interviewliao-yiwu-exiled-chinese-writer-and-poet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/the-interviewliao-yiwu-exiled-chinese-writer-and-poet","title":{"rendered":"THE INTERVIEW:Liao Yiwu, Exiled Chinese writer and poet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Latest update : 2014-05-22<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When tanks rolled into Beijing on June 3, 1989 on the way to a bloody crackdown on Tiananmen Square, Liao Yiwu was at home in Sichuan province. Shocked by news of the tragedy, in which hundreds died, he wrote a long poem that night,<!--more--> entitled &#8220;Massacre&#8221;. The work earned Liao a four-year prison sentence; four years during which Liao listened to the stories of fellow prisoners. A fierce critic of the Communist Party &#8211; most of his works remain banned in China &#8211; he now lives in exile in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>By Douglas HERBERT<br \/>\nFrom http:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/20140522-the-interview-liao-yiwu-exiled-chinese-writer-poet-tiananmen-poet-massacre-prison\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Latest update : 2014-05-22 &nbsp; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/the-interviewliao-yiwu-exiled-chinese-writer-and-poet\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[94,40,101],"views":1233,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=958"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":960,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions\/960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}