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Xiaolu Guo

The Tiananmen Square massacre took place 25 years ago in Beijing. HARDtalk asks writer and film-maker, Xiaolu Guo, what should the role of the artist or writer be in China today?

This year sees the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing that saw hundreds killed and many more detained. HARDtalk speaks to award-winning British-Chinese writer and film-maker, Xiaolu Guo, who 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. Zeinab Badawi asks, what should the role of the artist or writer be in China today?

30 minutes

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Fri 8 Aug 2014 19:30GMT

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