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27/08/2014 GMT

Writer and film-maker - Xiaolu Guo

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What should the role of the artist or writer be in China today?

It's 25 years since the Tianamen Square Massacre in Beijing that saw hundreds killed and many more detained.  One award-winning British-Chinese writer and film-maker Xiaolu Guo was a teenager at the time.  Decades earlier during the Cultural Revolution her fisherman father had spent more than ten years in correctional labour camps for painting a picture that had angered the authorities.  What should the role of the artist or writer be in China today?

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