Frozen in the Dead of Winter: A Report on Writing in China

Liu Bin-Yan, one of China’s best known dissident journalists, was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard in 1988-89 and was a writer in-residence at Trinity College in Hartford in 1989-90. His memoir, A Higher Kind of Loyalty, was published in 1990. (updated 1990)

Xiang Feng is a Research Professor at the Institute of Foreign Literature at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing. She has been a visiting scholar at Harvard, engaged in research on Virginia Woolf, and is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of English at Brandeis University. (updated 1990)