"That was an experience that rattled my entire life," Wang [Xiaofang] said in an interview last week following a reading at the Hong Kong International Literary Festival. "After that, I didn't want to repeat the same life. I didn't want to become a spiritual eunuch. I realised that to be able to be yourself is real success," he said. Since then Wang, who is 49, has published thirteen novels about corruption and politics in China, selling millions of copies in the process.

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