Posted on 02/24/2023 1:43:59 PM PST by Faith Presses On
...Witnessing how Shenzhen had become a showcase for affluence, he wrote a letter in 2002 to the Commercial Press, one of Hong Kong's biggest publishers, to pitch his book called "Treatise on the '66 Movement" ― a memoir about his young adulthood during the Cultural Revolution. He later said he handwrote the letter while being under the illusion of Shenzhen's reforms and was mistaken that there was greater room for political speech than the rest of China.
"I believe that the Commercial Press in Hong Kong is a free publishing house," Wu said, reciting a part of his letter. He used his daughter's internet cafe as a return address and signed the letter off under a pseudonym: Chen Anmin.
A little more than a month later, national security police showed up at the internet cafe, asking for a person named Chen Anmin. They told Wu, who was sitting at the front counter, to get them the manager. Police talked to Wu's son-in-law for half an hour and left.
"What was the problem?" Wu asked at the time.
His son-in-law said, "Nothing dad, they were here to find one Chen Anmin."
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