Issue Details: First known date: 2009... 2009 The Case for Literature by Gao Xingjian
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At the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution in 1967, a young, as yet unpublished writer, hearing that writers were being singled out for persecution, burned a suitcase full of his manuscripts. Short stories, plays, essays and scholarly critiques were gone in a blaze. He fled to a remote mountain village where he lived and worked as a manual labourer for several years. He wrote too, but secretly.

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  • Ling Shan Gao Xingjian , 1990 single work novel
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