Liu Xiaobo is one of my heroes, right up there below my patents.
Two things really stood out for him:
1 how did Liu reflect himself, he reflected on his initial Maoist-flavored radical esthetic and political views in the 1980s:
I realize my entire youth and early writings had all been nurtured in hatred, violence and arrogance, or lies, cynicism and sarcasm. I knew at that time that Mao-style thinking and Cultural Revolution-style language had become ingrained in me, and my goal had been to transform myself。 It may take me a lifetime to get rid of the poison.