Secret Historians Preserve the Past Amid State Amnesia
In effort to safeguard Party legitimacy, official history glosses over much of the brutality...
Xu Xing
Xu Xing: Apology for No Reason
Beijing-based writer Xu Xing (徐星) wrote the following post on his Xintianyou blog, translated by CDT: I had coffee with two foreign colleagues. We naturally talked about the Olympics. They asked me, with smiles on their faces,...
Year After Year* － Xu Xing (徐星) and He Jiawei (何家炜)
While the resigned law professor Xiao Han just broke the Tiananmen Massacre taboo in a university classroom early this year, it is not the first time such words have been written and published in the Chinese blogosphere. Here is...
“Us Chinese” and “Us Chinese People”
Beijing based writer Xu Xing wrote following post on his Xintianyou blog, thanks to M. J.’s translation: Whenever I hear these words, I feel them grate upon my ears. Especially when I hear them from major talk show hosts of...
The Patriotic Young Girl – Xu Xing
Beijing based writer Xu Xing wrote following post on his Xintianyou blog, thanks to M. J.’s translation: When I log onto MSN, an online buddy sends me a link. Thinking it is some sort of surprise, I click it – it is about...
A Late Night Phone Call – Xu Xing (徐星)
Beijing based writer Xu Xing wrote following post on his Xintianyou blog, thanks to M. J.’s translation: The phone rang suddenly last Thursday at about two in the morning. An old friend of mine, a Latin American girl, was crying to me on the line: “Old Xu my friend, I can’t not call you…I had […]
About “Most Chinese People Have Smiles on Their Faces” – Xu Xing (徐星)
Born in 1956, Xu Xing (徐星) is a Beijing-based writer and also an occasional blogger. Xu’s latest book “Et tout le reste est pour toi” “And everything else is for you” was published by...
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