Banned Quote by Ma Jian

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…

— Ma Jian

In February of this year I returned to China to research my next book. The authorities know about the novels of mine that have…

— Ma Jian

I have been visiting China since 1995.

— Sanjaya Baru

Since it was announced that I had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Chinese Foreign Ministry has condemned my works and criticized…

— Gao Xingjian

I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little…

— Salman Rushdie

I was posted to China in the summer of 1988, which was the greatest time ever, I think, to have been in China.

— John Pomfret

I did go to Beijing, with a two-year assignment. I stayed four years. And those four years were the most formative four years in…

— Dinesh Paliwal

It is vitally important for me, both personally and for my writing, to be able to return to China freely, so being barred entry…

— Ma Jian

After university, I travelled through China for about two or three months in 1985. It was very much a closed-off country and no one…

— Hugh Dennis

In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and…

— J. G. Ballard

In December of 1990, just before my eighth birthday, I left China for the United States. My father was a political dissident, and after…

— Leana S. Wen

I was a pretty free-spirited kid. I was part of a notorious group of troublemakers who didn't do well in school but had a…

— Chloe Zhao