This China Digital Times post has been sitting open in my browser for several days now. If you’re stuck behind the GFW, it’s a question and answer Chinese artist and social commentator Ai Weiwei did with a private Chinese BBS forum, full of social questions and snappy answers. It’s worth a read, but one question [...]
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Tags: Ai Weiwei, Art, Literature, Lu Xun
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The San Francisco Chronicle ran a story today (via CDT) about this years Nobel Literature Prize winner Herta Müller. Müller, apparently, is of the opinion that the West should “be tougher on China”. She said (quoting from the news story, which quotes her):
Human rights in China have been cast aside for too long and that [...]
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Tags: Literature, Windmill Tilting
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