Xi Lian, “Opposing Totalitarianism in the Name of God”
Channel: Maxwell Institute
Date: 24/03/2019

Maxwell Institute Guest Lecture—March 12, 2019

Xi Lian, “Opposing Totalitarianism in the Name of God: Lin Zhao's Martyrdom in Mao's China”

In 1968, at the height of China’s Cultural Revolution, 36-year-old poet and journalist Lin Zhao was executed inside Shanghai’s Tilanqiao Prison for her open and unbending opposition to what she called the “tyranny and slavery” of Chinese communism under Mao. In this lecture, historian Xi Lian discusses the life and writings of Lin Zhao who became, in the words of the late Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo, “the only voice of freedom left for contemporary China.”

XI LIAN, Professor of World Christianity at Duke Divinity School, is author of “Blood Letters: The Untold Story of Lin Zhao, A Martyr in Mao’s China” (2018).