Murong Xuecun was one of the brightest stars of China's literary scene, his novels offering searing critiques of contemporary social issues that few other writers dared to imitate. But after a decade of tightening freedom of speech under the rule of President Xi Jinping, he could not publish in his own country and was eventually forced into exile.

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