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Murong Xuecun: A Land China Loves and Hates

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HONG KONG — On the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, a major Chinese television network broadcast a documentary that investigated how Chinese people viewed not only those pivotal events but America itself. One man, referring to the slaughter of thousands of Americans, declared, “What a beautiful job!” Another said, “They should give America more of the same.” And a student standing in Tiananmen Square said he approved of the attacks because the United States was a bully and a hegemon.

Later in the film, the young man in Tiananmen Square went on Continue reading →

MURONG XUECUN: Scaling China’s Great Firewall

By MURONG XUECUN August 21, 2015

In the fall of 2011, a friend and I got on to discussing Tibet. “Do you know,” he said, “that Tibetans are setting fire to themselves?”

I had spent from 2005 to 2008 in Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, but I had never heard of acts of self-immolation. My friend filled me in on the ghastly details, Continue reading →

MURONG XUECUN: Corrupting the Chinese Language

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May 28, 2015

Andy Wong/Associated Press

On a recent walk along a street in the southern Chinese city of Sanya, I heard a shop pumping out a rock version of the famous Communist Party anthem “Socialism Is Good.” Continue reading →

China’s Publishers Court America as Its Authors Scorn Censorship

chinabook-articleLargeBy ALEXANDRA ALTER May 29, 2015

Protesters, including some Chinese writers, at the New York Public Library this week while a Chinese publishing delegation attended BookExpo only blocks away.
Sam Hodgson for The New York Times

A few years ago, the Chinese writer Murong Xuecun had the kind of Continue reading →

Murong Xuecun:Xi’s Selective Punishment

JAN. 16, 2015

HONG KONG — A Chinese government official I know was put under shuanggui, the secretive system of internal Communist Party investigation in which victims are detained, questioned without counsel and sometimes tortured. Continue reading →

MURONG XUECUN:Beijing’s Rising Smear Power

SEPT. 21, 2014

BEIJING — Chinese dissidents are constantly subject to all sorts of harassment. The artist Ai Weiwei can’t leave the country to attend exhibitions of his own work. Continue reading →

On the Smear Campaign Against a Dissident Writer

2014-08-29

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On Monday, August 25, an article titled “the Life of Murong Xuecun” Continue reading →

MURONG XUECUN: Under Beijing’s Eyes

AUG. 18, 2014

By MURONG XUECUN

BEIJING — In the summer of 2000, a colleague gave me a sealed folder containing my personal file. He told me that our employer, Continue reading →