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Living in London is like being on a luxury cruise liner.

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Red Dust was about the late 1980s; it was a time of burgeoning hopes and opening up and people searching for new ways.

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I wanted to analyse and understand how the Chinese people could have their lives so crushed by fear.

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China is completely lacking in self-awareness and as someone who has stepped outside that society, I have a responsibility to write about it as I see it.

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I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.

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In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.

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In February of this year I returned to China to research my next book. The authorities know about the novels of mine that have been published in the west, including the latest one, Beijing Coma, about a student shot in Tiananmen Square, but so far have allowed me to return.

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Beijing Coma took me 10 years to finish.

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I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.

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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.

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Biography

Nationality: Chinese

Type: Writer

Born: August 18th, 1953

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