Feb 18
Publishing Perspectives reports (Balancing Between Censorship and Dissent):
As China continues to crack down on dissenting voices coming from outspoken intellectuals, Murong Xuecun [????], one of the country?s most popular writers, is managing to balance on the tightrope between speaking out against censorship and the country?s political system, and remaining free to continue his writing career which has flourished ever since he distributed online his first novel, Leave Me Alone: A Novel of Chengdu, [??????????] ten years ago.
Murong?s voice is relatively new to the dissident arena ? he began publicly criticizing the government only about a year ago, when one of his closest friends was arrested on charges of inciting subversion.
Although he had always written about problems in contemporary society, his social consciousness began about two years ago, said Murong, in a recent interview in Paris, where he was seeing his publisher, Gallimard, with his agent, Sharon Galant of Zeitgeist Media Group.
Gallimard has bought the rights to his 2008 novel Dancing Through Red Dust (publication date: 2013) [???????] and a work of narrative non-fiction, The Missing Ingredient?[???????], (publication date: 2014) for which he won the 2010 People?s Literature Special Prize.
The social awakening Murong was referring to occurred during his research for The Missing Ingredient. He went undercover for several weeks to report on a mafia-type pyramid scam in a highly industrialized southern Chinese province. The ensuing book focused on the cruel inequalities that go hand in hand with the country?s breakneck development. On the day of the prize ceremony in Beijing, Murong was banned from speaking but his acceptance speech on literary freedom, which he immediately posted on the Internet, was subsequently published in newspapers and on websites around the world.
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