Obit for China's Pioneering Investigative Journalist
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2006/feb/09/liu-binyan-19252005/
Liu Binyan [刘宾雁], the distinguished Chinese journalist and writer who died of cancer on December 5, 2005, in exile in New Jersey, at the age of eighty, was an inveterate defender of the poor and the oppressed, a man with a powerful analytic mind. But the trait that most determined his course through life was his bent for speaking out combined with his utter inability to say anything that he thought to be false. This was so even in small matters. During his last visit with me he said, “You’re a Sinologist, but I have never tasted really good Chinese tea at your house.”
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See also this short piece at Liu Binyan: Censored Beyond the Grave:
The epitaph he had written for himself was simple: “The Chinese man here entombed once did what he should have done, said what he himself should have said.” Party censors did not approve, and the inscription on his tomb at the Tianshan Cemetery in Beijing on Dec. 23 was not allowed to proceed.
Bruce Humes, January 16, 2011, 10p.m.