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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.
When the written and spoken word is censored, the urban landscape becomes a nation's only physical link to the past.
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... →
Beijing Coma took me 10 years to finish.
I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they... →
Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
It is vitally important for me, both personally and for my writing, to be able to return to China freely, so being barred entry has caused me deep... →
I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.
I wanted to analyse and understand how the Chinese people could have their lives so crushed by fear.
Red Dust was about the late 1980s; it was a time of burgeoning hopes and opening up and people searching for new ways.
I am a writer. Being critical is a writer's responsibility.
In my 20s, when I was a photojournalist in Beijing. I joined an underground art group and put on clandestine exhibitions of my paintings.
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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