The LRB 10 May 2012 has an article by Joanna Biggs (LRB editor) on the pre-Bookfair British Council trip that took journalists to China to meet writers. The journalists spoke to 14 fiction writers in Shanghai, Nanjing and Beijing. She mentions Yu Shi, Bi Feiyu, Han Han, Liu Xiaobo, Yan Lianke, Murong Xuecun, Qi Jiazhen (but obviously didn't meet all of them).

Her article follows a piece by Wang Hui entitled 'The Rumour Machine - Wang Hui on the dismissal of Bo Xilai'.