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From his humble beginnings as a propaganda writer, Yan Lianke has gone on to become among China’s most controversial writers one whose work is frequently censored for its focus on the lives of those devastated by Beijing’s policies. “When people are dreamwalking,” he writes in The Day the Sun Died (2015), “they see only the people and things they care about, and it is as if ....
Modern China was built on the nearly thirty ruthless years of Mao’s rule. The country’s elite the “literati” of educated small landowners who held the empire together at the local level was brutally eliminated. Almost everyone’s personal life was destroyed: homes searched for incriminating books, thoughts remolded by struggle sessions, and streets inundated by the din of tinny ....