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HONG KONG (AFP) - A friend of Gao Xingjian, the first and only Chinese writer to win the Nobel prize for literature, recently managed to find a pirated copy of his banned work at an underground Chinese bookstore. Gao's works...
The poet Woeser has long been a rarity — a Tibetan living in China who doesn't flinch from publicly criticizing the Chinese government. After being repeatedly denied a passport for three years, the Beijing resident has sued the...
I lived in South East Asia for most of the 1970's, working in the branch offices there for one of the large New York City banks. I was a 'line' officer. This meant that I was not in the back-office, but instead, I dealt with...
