Pleasure of Thinking - Wang Xiaobo drawing These men were so much

These men were so much more vulnerable and honest than we expected

thereby helping in saving the ancient practice of colouring cloth

headbands and ribbon markers

In this way

It is 4am when the ambulance comes to take the man’s wife away – although no-one has called it

Pleasure of Thinking - Wang Xiaobo drawing These men were so muchThe dazzling essays of the beloved, subversive Chinese writer Wang Xiaobo, a continual bestseller in China, now in English for the first time. Wang Xiaobo made his name as a novelist but his essays, too, have become ongoing bestsellers in China since their publication in the 1990s. Bringing together his thoughts on reading and talking and silence in the Cultural Revolution, about the irrepressible spirit of one beloved pig he met while an educated