Please Read Murong Xuecun’s Open Letter To His Censor

Murong Xuecun's open letter to his censor
Murong Xuecun has seen all his microblogs deleted (May 11), reinstated (May 17), and deleted again (May 18). Anyone who gets jerked around like this has reason to be upset; Murong, more so, considering he had millions of followers and thousands of entries accumulated over three years, and because, as he himself puts it, "to a writer, the words he writes are more important to him than his life."

Murong Xuecun: “Who Gives You The Power To Deprive Citizens Of Their Right To Free Speech?”

Murong Xuecun
Hao Qun, 39, better known by his pen name Murong Xuecun, saw all of his weibos -- Sina, Tencent, NetEase, and Sohu -- deleted on Saturday. Successive attempts to re-register were quickly thwarted as well. He lost 1.85 million followers, but it's China and its ignoble band of fucking censors who have lost more: repute. Face. Or does that suddenly not matter?

Murong Xuecun: Chinese system is “designed to make people stupid, foster mutual hatred, and degrade their ability to think critically”

Murong Xuecun on Foreign Policy
Murong Xuecun, the outspoken Beijing-based writer and anti-censorship champion, calls China an obscurantist system “designed to make people stupid, foster mutual hatred, and degrade their ability to think critically and understand the world” in his latest broadside, penned for Foreign Policy.