Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well..

It is vitally important for me, both personally and for my writing, to be able to return to China freely, so being barred entry has caused me deep co….

In February of this year I returned to China to research my next book. The authorities know about the novels of mine that have been published in the ….

Before the counter-culture revolutionary Li Lian was executed in 1971 for criticising the Cultural Revolution, pour policemen pushed her face against….

China is completely lacking in self-awareness and as someone who has stepped outside that society, I have a responsibility to write about it as I see….

My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they believe a regime….

The Beijing Olympics represent China's grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status..

Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will belies waiting on the road ahead..

I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are ….

In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In th….

Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyones individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth..

The literal meaning of the Chinese characters for revolution is elimination of life.

Red Dust was about the late 1980s; it was a time of burgeoning hopes and opening up and people searching for new ways..

Living in London is like being on a luxury cruise liner..

I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually..

I wanted to analyse and understand how the Chinese people could have their lives so crushed by fear..

When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased..

I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny..

The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media….

To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and….

I will not let a political party tell me how to live, when to die or what to believe in. Our souls are linked to the universe, but we can never see h….