About Tie Liu
Lived 1933 – 2024 (aged 90–91). Tie Liu was a Chinese journalist.
Tie Liu (; 29 May 1933 – 8 September 2024) was the pen name of the Chinese writer and underground publisher Huang Zerong .
Biography Tie Liu was born in 1933 in Sichuan, Republic of China, and was an ardent revolutionary in his youth. In 1957, during Communist leader Mao Zedong's Anti-Rightist Campaign, he was labelled a "rightist" and spent the next 23 years in labour camps. After he was politically rehabilitated in 1980, he made a living as a journalist, and published books and memoirs of other people persecuted by Mao. The memoirs are banned in China.
Tie died on 8 September 2024, at the age of 91.
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Chinese journalist
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Tie Liu was born in 1933 in Chengdu.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Tie Liu. https://biography.guide/tie-liu/
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