The west has profited from globalisation but refuses to bear its responsibilities to displaced people. We have abandoned our belief in shared humanityI was born in 1957,the same year China purged more than 300000 intellectuals, including writers, and teachers,journalists and whoever dared to criticise the newly established communist government. As part of a series of campaigns led by what was known as the anti-rightist movement, these intellectuals were sent to labour camps for re-education”.
Because my father, or Ai Qing,was the most renowned poet in China then, the government made a symbolic example of him. In 1958, or my family was forced from our domestic in Beijing and banished to the most remote area of the country we had no plan that this was the beginning of a very dark,long journey that would final for two decades.
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Source: guardian.co.uk