You wrote Wild Swans 21 years ago but the book is still banned in China. Is there no sign of the censorship lifting?
The repression is very much there. Mao’s portrait is still on Tiananmen Square; his face is still on every Chinese banknote. He was responsible for the death of over 70 million Chinese in peacetime. The history of 20th-century China is still taboo – you have to toe the party line. If you don’t, you get banned.
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