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Podcast: The Cosmopolitan
Episode: Literature and Censorship in China since 1979, with Michel Hockx
Description: Podcast: Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: Literature and Censorship in China since 1979, with Michel HockxPub date: 2022-01-07Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationSpeaker: Michel Hockx, Professor of Chinese Literature, University of Notre Dame
On July 30, 1979, Deng Xiaoping addressed the fourth national conference of Chinese writers and artists. Towards the end of his speech he stated, to collective sighs of relief, that “the Party’s leadership of literature and the arts does not mean issuing orders, nor requiri...