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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.
- To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to…
- After the Tiananmen Massacre, I felt compelled not only to continue writing but to actively resist the restrictions placed on freedom of speech. I set…
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