once boasted more than 1 million followers it was banned in 2013work slowly dried upalthough i call myself a writer it was almost impossible for me to publish essays or books all i could do was be an anonymous screenwriter he saidas xi prepares to secure a normbreaking third term at octobers party congress murong likens the current situation to the cultural revolution under mao zedong communist chinas founder when fervent mass campaigns mobilised against imaginary social threatschina is very likely to become like it was in the mao era a country where nobody dares to speak out openly he saidperhaps only when the communist partys censorship and oppression are gone can chinas literature and arts truly flourish