PRC Spin Doctors Spruce up Herta Müller's Resume

http://www.bruce-humes.com/?p=1261

When dissident writer Gao Xingjian won the Nobel Prize for Literature, Chinese netizens were emphatically told that he was French, not Chinese. Never mind that he was born and raised in China, lived there several decades, and writes in Chinese. Now, thanks to the Chinese-language Cankao Xiaoxi, we learn that this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, German-speaking Herta Müller, emigrated to Germany partly because of harassment by Romania’s bao’an budui (保安部队)...

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Yes, but Charles K. Kao, who moved to London in the 1960s is of course Chinese.

Anna GC, October 10, 2009, 9:26a.m.

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