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Literary bureaucracy goes to Frankfurt

Eric Abrahamsen writes for The National about China's reception at the Frankfurt Book Fair: Speaking under condition of anonymity, one writer said that officials from the General Administration of Press and Publication had spoken to all the authors... ...full story at Danwei

from Danwei on Fri, Oct 30 2009

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