Zhang Pu, brother of Wild Swans author Jung Chang, says his novel about a doomed Han-Tibetan romance was banned in China because it “refuses to look away” from Tibetan suffering – and says he would be detained if he returned. Writing exclusively for The London Economic, he explains why the story of Han Ge and Ata remains dangerous in a country where politics can reach into love, family and memory.
The health secretary is the latest politician to condemn the booking.
Families hold silences that shape us more than we realise. For Richard K. Lowy, discovering the truth about his father’s life as a teenage twin subjected to Josef Mengele’s medical experiments at Auschwitz became an encounter with history at point-blank range — and a warning about how propaganda, denial and dehumanisation still take hold in societies everywhere.
“They’re being shamed all the time and made to feel like they’re a problem."
Trump said he will sue “for plenty $”
“If they showed this on a plane, people would still walk out”
'The only thing that matters to him is his own morality'
He named his dog after a Chelsea legend
The case has often been referred to as ‘the British Erin Brockovich’.
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