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Surveillance, fear, and exile: The price of speaking out against China
When does political resistance become a moral obligation?
Chinese-Australian artist Badiucao and Chinese-American journalist Melissa Chan have both paid a personal price for criticising China's one-party system. Between them, they've faced expulsion, surveillance, harassment and intimidation.
Badiucao even found a man who had assumed his identity.
Together, Chan and Badiucao have created the graphic novel You Must Take Part in Revolution, exploring a dystopian future in which a tech-authoritarian China locks horns with a fascistic United States, with Taiwan caught in the middle.
The book asks…
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