Without writing, what would I have become? Nothing. In China the individual used to be treated as a screw or a small cog in the revolutionary machine. I wanted to be a human being with a voice.

English has more flexibility. It's a very plastic, very shapeable, very expressive language. In that sense it feels quite natural.

We can't continue to be like this. Who am I? Your fiancée or your concubine?

Every summer Lin Kong returned to Goose Village to divorce his wife, Shuyu.

I don't think of myself as a dissident, and I'm more of an immigrant than an exile.

You strive to have a good heart. But what is a heart? Just a chunk of flesh that a dog can eat.

The more you move, the stronger you'll grow.