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

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

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 concern and distress.

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

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

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.