by Yanan Wang When her democracy activist husband was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010, Liu Xia was elated. “I’m so excited, I’m so excited, I don’t know what to say,” the Chinese poet and painter told AFP over the telephone that October. She thanked “all those people that have supported Liu Xiaobo” and … Continue reading ‘I want to marry that enemy of the state’: Liu Xia – the apolitical poet who became a dissident’s wife