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...Unlike Min, I have shifted in my writing from Chinese to English for the sake of creativity. Although I've been publishing in Chinese since age 14 and am more fluent and comfortable in Chinese, English enables me to write without self-censorship and worries about cultural land mines...
...escape that sort of idolatry, I write in English. Readers' adulation and expectations can be a burden for an author and lead to self-censorship. In English, I feel no expectations from old fans and no negative cultural associations. The 26 letters of the English alphabet make me a child again-naive, bold, fearless, primal. I can profane, question and break the stranglehold of traditional Chinese culture. English is my rite of passage...
...Greed and growth are easy targets, and they are attacked with such zeal that it's possible to overlook the heavy hand of artistic censorship in China. It's not quite invisible, however. While a few works reference the Sino-Japanese War, nothing at the exhibition addresses recent traumas, events still imbued with fresh political sensitivity. An installation inspired by last year's U.S. spy plane incident off Hainan Island was scrapped right before the exhibition was set to open, without explanation by authorities. The government is fine with history, so long as it's kept in the past...
...modest attempts at reform. "We are not just close to a dictatorship; we are already in a serious phase of dictatorship." Don't expect to hear about this through the temniki. The New York-based organization Human Rights Watch recently described the government directives as "subtle but very effective censorship" and urged the Ukrainian parliament - which called hearings on the matter on Dec. 4 in response to complaints from journalists and media monitoring groups - to enforce guarantees of free expression. "Maybe we don't have censorship de jure, but it certainly exists de facto," says Andriy Shchevchenko, leader...
...merely horrible. "His language was raped," says Malmqvist. "For Gao Xingjian, to have his language raped is to be raped himself." He vowed that it would never happen again. When Chinese authorities threatened him for writing non-conformist literature in 1983, Gao was forced to choose between self-censorship and exile. "Exile meant survival to me," he says, "physical survival as well as maintaining spiritual independence, by gaining freedom of expression...