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Liang Heng: Ich, Liang Heng, Sohn der Revolution / Liang Heng und Judith Shapiro. - München, 1984

'The writer must have full freedom to express his own feelings, excitement and thought… For a long time the party has interfered too much.' These words by the party representative at a recent writers conference have caused a surge of optimism among writers and artists

The excerpt that follows is taken from Intellectual Freedom in China After Mao, With a Focus on 1983, a report by Liang Heng and Judith Shapiro, with a foreword by Arthur Miller. Liang Heng, who came to the US in 1981 and took an MA degree at Columbia University, and American Sinologist Judith' Shapiro married in China in 1980, when Shapiro was teaching at Hunan Teachers' College. They are the authors of Son of the Revolution ( Chatto & Windus, London), the story of Liang's growing up during the Cultural Revolution. He is now Editor-in-Chief of Zhishi Fenzi ( 'The Chinese Intellectual'), a new magazine published in Chinese in the USA for visiting scholars and students from China. The 214-page report concentrates on the climate for independent thinking in China during 1983 and on the nature of official constraints on intellectual freedom. The report was published in July 1984 by the Fund for Free Expression. The Fund set up the Helsinki Watch and the Americas Watch and is the US sponsor of Index on Censorship. Intellectual Freedom in China After Mao is available (price $10) from the Fund at 36 West 44th Street, New York NY 10036.