Past Events Disperse like Smoke

PEN Atlas contributor Gregor Benton looks at revolution, resistance and the Beijing University literature class that harboured three of China's best-known intellectual and political adversaries, in light of his forthcoming translation of Mei Zhi's prison memoirs F: Hu Feng's Prison Years.

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Performing in Chains

The PEN Atlas continues this week with a two-part blog sequence. The first despatch comes from one of China's most established writers, Yan Lianke, who reflects on mechanisms of censorship.

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