China's Great Leap Backward

A former student ("vaccinated") tells what life is like in Xi's Beijing

Below are two enlightening letters from a poet and artist who returned to China after studying at NYU. (Of course I cannot name her here.) She wrote these to her favorite NYU professor, who passed them on to me. (I can’t name that colleague, either, since NYU is very close to China, and not so tolerant of COVID dissidents, as I found out last year.)

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