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

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

In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.

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

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

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

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