Editing Li Ao (section)

==Writing career==
Li participated in the [[democracy|democratic]] movement in Taiwan between the 1960s and 1980s. In the 1960s, he was the editor-in-chief of pro-democracy magazine ''Wenxing'' (文星).<ref name="wencui"/> He was jailed by the [[Kuomintang]] government from 1971 to 1976,<ref>{{Cite news| issn = 0362-4331| last = Butterfield| first = Fox| title = Chiang's Son Has Tightened Hold on Taiwan| work = The New York Times| access-date = 2017-06-15| date = 1977-04-09| url = https://www.nytimes.com/1977/04/09/archives/chiangs-son-has-tightened-hold-on-taiwan.html}}</ref> for helping a pro-[[Taiwan independence]] legal scholar, [[Peng Ming-min]], escape to Japan in 1970;<ref>{{Cite news| last = Loa Iok-Sin| title = Peng tells details of escape from KMT| work = Taipei Times| access-date = 2017-06-15| date = 2008-09-21| url = http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2008/09/21/2003423802}}</ref> even though Li himself had a long history of being an advocate of [[reunification]]. Throughout the 1970s, Li received international attention for his imprisonment. He was highlighted by [[Amnesty International]] as one of the three most important political prisoners in Taiwan in 1974. From 1981 to 1982 Li was imprisoned over a dispute with a former employer.<ref name=":0">{{cite web |last1=Auto |first1=Hermes |date=19 March 2018 |title=Li Ao dies: Taiwan's self-proclaimed 'No. 1 writer of banned books', TV star and politician led a rich life {{!}} The Straits Times |url=https://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/entertainment/li-ao-dies-taiwans-self-proclaimed-no1-writer-of-banned-books-tv-star-and |access-date=26 October 2022 |website=www.straitstimes.com |publisher=The Straits Times |language=en}}</ref>

Li's novel ''Mountaintop Love'' ({{lang|zh-hant|上山．上山．愛}}), about a mother and a daughter who fall in love with the same man, though several years apart, established his status as a novelist, solidified by ''Martyrs' Shrine: The Story of the Reform Movement of 1898 in China'' (北京法源寺), a novel about the [[Hundred Days' Reform]]. Ninety-six of his books were banned in Taiwan until 1991.<ref name="Li Ao">{{Cite web|title=Li Ao|url=http://en.chinaculture.org/library/2008-01/09/content_73205.htm|access-date=2021-02-17|website=en.chinaculture.org}}</ref> Popular in mainland China in the 1990s and 2000s, the majority of his books have been prohibited from republishing since 2012 amid China's tightened censorship under [[Xi Jinping]], except his two memoirs and ''Martyrs' Shrine.''<ref>{{Cite web |last=中時新聞網 |date=2021-03-16 |title=李敖之子李戡：支持兩岸統一理想未變 但自己無法說服台灣人 - 兩岸 |url=https://www.chinatimes.com/realtimenews/20210316004714-260409?chdtv |access-date=2025-03-28 |website=中時新聞網 |language=zh-TW}}</ref>