We are not on – even just a step away from the most brutal and primitive crudity. To be very crude on those issues, which is always challenges and we always have to look at the situation like a mirror, to draw some understanding.
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Today, we jump into this globalization of the economy and the internet age.
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We are not on – even just a step away from the most brutal and primitive crudity. To be very crude on those issues, which is always challenges and we always have to look at the situation like a mirror, to draw some understanding.
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[Cultural department] understand nothing but bureaucratic daily affairs. They don’t care about culture.
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The museums used to be exhibition halls for government propaganda, and now every city wants to build a museum.
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If civil society has nobody who protects the law, then what kind of society is that?
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I was in the most restricted prison in China, the most tough. The design of the prison is modeled for internal crimes of the Communist party, so it’s like a mafia family’s law. It’s independent to the law this nation openly applies.
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My angst and my insecurity reflect the state’s angst and insecurity. The state is scared too.
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A clear understanding of such differences will help the rest of the world understand China and all that is happening to the nation.
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Even if I have hundreds of things to do, the disconnected feeling is still there because it is very hard to find a real purpose of life.
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The Internet has established a public sphere and developed a pressure which the government can no longer ignore.
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Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human.
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