The Cultural Revolution cost the lives of many of the country’s intellectuals, some of them by their own hand, a fact that the Party today does not recognize.
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This week: Nobel Prize winner Mo Yan on when censorship is permissible, cartoonists face censorship in South Africa, and free speech in Kazakhstan.
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In the past 20 years, 12 of the 21 Nobel Literature Prize winners have been imprisoned, exiled from their home country, or written books that were later banned. Several works by American novelist Toni Morrison appear on the banned books list.
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