25 moments
Birth in Changchun
· Changchun, Jilin, China
Liu Xiaobo was born in Changchun, Jilin Province.
Family relocation to Inner Mongolia
· Horqin Right Front Banner, Hinggan, Inner Mongolia, China
During the Down to the Countryside Movement, Liu went with his father to Horqin Right Front Banner in eastern Inner Mongolia. Coordinates represent the banner seat; the family’s precise residence is not identified.
Farm work in Jilin
· Jilin, China
After middle school, Liu was sent to rural Jilin to work on a farm. The specific farm is not identified; coordinates represent Jilin’s provincial capital, Changchun.
Begins study at Jilin University
· Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China
Liu entered the Department of Chinese Literature at Jilin University and co-founded the poetry group The Innocent Hearts.
Moves to Beijing for graduate study
· Beijing Normal University, Haidian, Beijing, China
After graduating from university, Liu moved to Beijing for graduate study at Beijing Normal University.
Doctorate and lectureship at Beijing Normal University
· Beijing Normal University, Haidian, Beijing, China
Liu completed his literature PhD and became a lecturer in the same department at Beijing Normal University.
Visiting scholar at the University of Oslo
· University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Liu left China for Norway to begin an overseas academic visit as a visiting scholar at the University of Oslo.
Visiting scholar in New York
· Columbia University, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States
Liu was a visiting scholar at Columbia University in New York shortly before deciding to return to China during the protest movement.
Tokyo airport transit
· Tokyo, Japan
While travelling from New York back to Beijing to join the democracy movement, Liu changed aircraft in Tokyo. The specific Tokyo airport is not identified; coordinates represent central Tokyo.
Returns to Beijing for the democracy movement
· Beijing, China
Liu returned from the United States to Beijing and joined the 1989 student movement.
Detention at Qincheng Prison
· Qincheng Prison, Changping, Beijing, China
Following the Tiananmen movement, Liu was detained at Qincheng Prison pending his case. Wikipedia’s prison-term table gives the confinement period as June 1989 to January 1991; the exact transfer date is not independently settled here.
Tiananmen Square hunger strike
· Tiananmen Square, Dongcheng, Beijing, China
Liu initiated the four-man, three-day hunger strike that made the participants known as the Tiananmen Four Gentlemen. The surrounding account identifies the action as part of the occupation of Tiananmen Square.
Publishes memoir in Taiwan
· Taiwan
While in Taiwan, Liu published his first book after imprisonment, The Monologues of a Doomsday's Survivor. The source does not identify a locality in Taiwan; coordinates represent the island.
Documentary-interview visit to Australia
· Australia
Liu visited Australia for interviews connected with the documentary film The Gate of Heavenly Peace. No Australian city is specified; coordinates represent Australia.
Documentary-interview visit to the United States
· United States
Liu visited the United States for interviews connected with the documentary film The Gate of Heavenly Peace. No U.S. locality is specified; coordinates represent the country.
Residential surveillance in suburban Beijing
· Suburbs of Beijing, China
Police took Liu into custody after his petition campaign; he was held under residential surveillance in Beijing’s suburbs for nine months. The specific surveillance residence is not identified; coordinates are a representative point in suburban Beijing.
Reeducation-through-labor detention in Dalian
· Dalian, Liaoning, China
Liu was arrested and sent to a reeducation-through-labor camp in Dalian for three years. The camp’s exact site is not identified; coordinates represent central Dalian.
Marriage during labor-camp detention
· Dalian, Liaoning, China
While detained in Dalian, Liu formally married Liu Xia by completing the required paperwork, since camp rules barred him from leaving. The evidence establishes camp confinement in Dalian but not the camp’s precise coordinates.
Publishes in Taiwan
· Taiwan
Liu was in Taiwan when he published A Nation That Lies to Conscience. The source does not identify a locality in Taiwan; coordinates represent the island.
Taken from Beijing apartment into secret detention
· Beijing, China
Wikimedia Commons · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported · file Police removed Liu from his Beijing apartment and placed him under six months of residential surveillance at an undisclosed police-run hostel in Beijing. The detention hostel was explicitly undisclosed; coordinates represent Beijing.
Held at Beijing No. 1 Detention Center
· Beijing No. 1 Detention Center, Beijing, China
After formal arrest on an incitement-of-subversion charge, Liu was held at Beijing No. 1 Detention Center. The detention center’s exact publicly verifiable coordinates are not supplied by the source; coordinates represent Beijing.
Trial at Beijing No. 1 Intermediate Court
· Beijing No. 1 Intermediate Court, Beijing, China
Liu was tried on the charge of inciting subversion of state power at Beijing No. 1 Intermediate Court. Coordinates represent central Beijing; the court building was not independently geocoded for this record.
Transfer to Jinzhou Prison
· Jinzhou Prison, Jinzhou, Liaoning, China
Following his conviction, Liu was transferred from Beijing detention to Jinzhou Prison in Liaoning, where he remained for most of the rest of his life. The prison’s precise site is not identified in the source; coordinates represent Jinzhou.
Hospital admission in Shenyang
· First Hospital of China Medical University, Heping, Shenyang, Liaoning, China
Liu was admitted to the First Hospital of China Medical University in Shenyang after being granted medical parole amid terminal liver cancer.
Death in Shenyang hospital
· First Hospital of China Medical University, Heping, Shenyang, Liaoning, China
Wikimedia Commons · Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication · file Liu died from liver cancer at the First Hospital of China Medical University in Shenyang.