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The Sunday Read: ‘The Art of Telling Forbidden Stories in China’

The Sunday Read: ‘The Art of Telling Forbidden Stories in China’

The Daily vor 3 Jahren

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As China strove for a larger role on the international stage at
the turn of the century, the arrival of the internet and a
relatively relaxed political environment spurred a boom in
self-expression. Many writers tested the boundaries of Chinese
literary culture, experimenting with subjects that were quotidian
but taboo on the page: corruption, sexual desire and evolving
gender roles.

In today’s China, though, the pursuit of free expression requires
writers to operate under the ever-watchful eye of a complex state
surveillance system. This can resemble a high-stakes game of
Whac-a-Mole in which writers, editors and online publishers try
to outmaneuver the Chinese Communist Party’s apparatus, using any
opportunity and resource at their disposal to chronicle life as
they see it.

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