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China's "forgotten" past

Ma Jian: China Dream, translated from Chinese

: Through a look back at the main character Ma Dade's past as a Red Guard during the Cultural Revolution, China Dream challenges the extensive falsification of history in China.
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Headed towards the light of the blind

Yan Lianke: The Day the Sun Died

: Yan Lianke writes books that cross national borders and language barriers and qualify to be referred to as world literature. But in his home country, his books are banned.
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