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The Chinese have made a faustian pact with the government, agreeing to forsake demands for political and intellectual freedom in exchange for more material comfort. They live prosperous lives in which any expression of pain is forbidden.

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I left Beijing in the late 1980s to live in Hong Kong because, having been blacklisted by the government, I couldn't publish my works on the mainland.

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When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish.

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If you exile a writer, however free the country he is sent to, there will always be a sense of internal constraint.

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On the face of it, China has won the Olympics. But it is not China that has won, but the Communist party. The Chinese people have lost.

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Biography

Nationality: Chinese

Type: Writer

Born: August 18th, 1953

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