China's greatest journalist dies NYT link (bugmenot) Liu Binyan "fearless and incorruptible, China's conscience" dies aged 80.

Interviewed in the NYRB shortly after going into exile in 1987. Liu holds the distinction of being one of one of the few "bourgeois liberals" criticised by name in the works of Deng Xiaoping. What with Zhao Ziyang also passing on earlier this year, it seems that 2005 marks the passing of a generation of China's reformers.