Ma Jian's most recent novel is Beijing Coma.
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China’s Show Trial of the Century
LONDON – The trial, conviction, and suspended death sentence of Gu Kailai, the wife of purged Chinese leader Bo Xilai, has called into quest…
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Britain’s Cultural Kowtow
LONDON – You would think that the British, having practically invented appeasement, and paid a heavy price for it, would know better. But ap…
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The Power of China’s Powerless
LONDON – No sooner had I finished reading an article that eulogized Václav Havel, the playwright turned dissident turned peaceful revolution…
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The Sunflower Revolutionary
LONDON – The grim news that Ai Weiwei, perhaps China’s most famous contemporary artist, has been arrested and jailed – his family and friend…
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In the Footsteps of Gandhi, Mandela, and Havel
LONDON – Liu Xiaobo, the imprisoned Chinese writer and human-rights campaigner, will receive the Nobel Peace Prize on December 10. For the f…
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Guilty Democrats
LONDON – When former Czech President Václav Havel knocked on the door of the Chinese embassy in Prague to demand the release of the writer …
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China’s Slave Power
When a government-run brick plant in Hongdong County of Shanxi Province was revealed to be using slave labor, a famous episode from a Beijin…
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The Revolution Will Not Be Memorialized
Forty years ago Mao Zedong launched the Cultural Revolution. The Propaganda Department of China’s ruling Communists have now issued an order…
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China’s Internet Dictatorship
Eleven years after its initial connection to the World Wide Web (WWW), China’s access to the Internet is still guarded by firewalls, embedde…
China’s Show Trial of the Century
Han van der Heide: Some people would surely applaud this, but (as the Party 'wolves' would agree), open dissent within the party can send the entire country spiraling into chaos.
China’s Show Trial of the Century
Han van der Heide: She probably changed her views by now. In my humble opinion, the trial of this woman and the upcoming trial of her husband are meant to show to the world that no-one is above the 'law'