Volume 56, Number 16 · October 22, 2009
Shut Up in China
By Bei Ling, Translated from the German by Hugh Eakin
In connection with the Frankfurt Book Fair, an international symposium, 'China and the World—Perception and Reality,' was held in Frankfurt on September 12 and 13. Under pressure from China, which is guest of honor at the Book Fair, the organizers rescinded invitations to the Chinese poet and editor Bei Ling and the Chinese journalist and environmental activist Dai Qing. After the decision was criticized in the German press, both were allowed to attend the conference as guests of the German PEN association of writers, causing members of the official Chinese delegation to walk out. Following are excerpts from a speech prepared for the symposium by Bei Ling that were published in Süddeutsche Zeitung on September 10.
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