China Bans ‘Soft Burial’, an Award-Winning Novel About the Deadly Consequences of Land Reform

Oiwam Lam  |  Global Voices The Chinese government has recently banned the sale of an award-winning novel, “Soft Burial,” written by Fang Fang about China’s land reform in the 1950s. The novel tells the story of an old woman who suffered from amnesia after she witnessed her husband’s entire family driven to take their own lives during the Chinese Communist Party’s […]