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Exiled Author Ma Jian Banned from Visiting China
Author Ma Jian has been refused entry to China on a book-buying trip to Shenzhen. Given the country’s current political climate, he says, this was a development he had feared. From Tania Branigan in The Guardian:Citing the imprisonment of Nobel peace prize winner Liu Xiaobo and the two-month detention of Ai Weiwei, he warned: “There are echoes of the Cultural Revolution, when no soundJuly 29, 2011 5:48 PM
Self-Censorship a “Potent Poison” for China’s Writers
For The New York Times’ Latitude blog, Eric Abrahamsen highlights Chinese novelist-in-exile Ma Jian, who once calle
Ma Jian: “In China, I Feel Kafka’s Presence Everywhere.”
Author Ma Jian tells The Wall Street Journal which five writers he’d most like to meet:Franz Kafka “To me,
July 7, 2011 3:32 PM
Novelist ‘Astonished’ over Tiananmen
Asia Times interviews author Ma Jian:ATol: Beijing Coma also covers the decade after Tiananmen Square. What surprised y
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