Rick Moody reads A Letter from Xinna by Xinna as part of PEN American Center's Bringing Down the Great Firewall of China event.
On the eve of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, PEN honored the more than 40 writers and journalists imprisoned in China. Acclaimed authors came together to lend voice to the silence that threatens the lives and work of these writers.
This letter from Xinna is very revealing of what can often happen under a police state such as China's single-party regime if minorities try to preserve their cultural identity in a way that the China's Communist Party disapproves of.
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