In 2010, the Nobel Prize Committee awarded the Peace Prize, arguably the Nobel’s loftiest accolade, to the Chinese writer and activist Liu Xiaobo. Lui was then serving his fourth prison sentence for inciting subversion. The Nobel Committee granted Lui the award for his “long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China.” Lui died in 2017 of lung cancer in the First Hospital of China Medical University, where, although on medical parole, he was still actively guarded and silenced. China’s government has actively restricted both traditional and online media for a long time. It does so to prevent subversive...