A Chinese Writer’s Dilemma

For the New Yorker, Zha Jianying writes about writer and former Minister of Culture Wang Meng. For the New Yorker website, she talks about both Wang Meng and Liu Xiaobo. LIsten here:

This week in the magazine, Jianying Zha profiles one of China’s most eminent writers, Wang Meng. Here Zha talks with Blake Eskin about whether Wang is a liberal reformer or a tool of the state, how his life story mirrors his country’s history since the rise of Mao, and the prospects for political reform in China.

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