Bill GreenRobert, China's spit is not the same as their urine
March 10th 2010 03:33
Robert Dessaix writes elegantly about everything except this millenium's major problem, politics.
He appears to take some pride in not being the sort of writer who is a threat to China.
Dessaix has been denied a visa to China on the grounds of HIV. This is appalling but if he had taken some interest in politics he would have discovered that China is the most brutal of countries (can anyone name another that murders dissenters with such regularity?).
How can this be, he onviously mused? "I am not a threat. I don't write on political issues. I feel I've been spat on."
Don't worry about it Robert I was urinated on in China by several Chinese security bureaucrats in a small room. I felt I was lucky not to have been under house arrest like journalist Anthony Grey. One of the security men who organised the ritual urination was head of China's "secret" secret service, and had supervised Grey's impounding
I'm really glad that Frank Moorhouse took his stand. He showed some guts and understanding.
If you wish to understand China, Australia and America and their chaotic relationships read Compulsively Murdering Mao by Bill Green (Amazon). It was first published as a novel to rave reviews but it's satirical reportage and all the events are true and real, no matter how bizarre they may appear.
In fact Robert shouldn't be so innocent about China, for on publication of the book he interviewed me on the ABC. And there is something of a problem about Australian writing. It is that our literary novelists avoid politics, perhaps because they have a weather eye on government grants. I know I was refused a second senior literary grant because I wouldn't entertain post modernism as a valid discipline for its rules barred it from being so.
He appears to take some pride in not being the sort of writer who is a threat to China.
Dessaix has been denied a visa to China on the grounds of HIV. This is appalling but if he had taken some interest in politics he would have discovered that China is the most brutal of countries (can anyone name another that murders dissenters with such regularity?).
How can this be, he onviously mused? "I am not a threat. I don't write on political issues. I feel I've been spat on."
I'm really glad that Frank Moorhouse took his stand. He showed some guts and understanding.
If you wish to understand China, Australia and America and their chaotic relationships read Compulsively Murdering Mao by Bill Green (Amazon). It was first published as a novel to rave reviews but it's satirical reportage and all the events are true and real, no matter how bizarre they may appear.
In fact Robert shouldn't be so innocent about China, for on publication of the book he interviewed me on the ABC. And there is something of a problem about Australian writing. It is that our literary novelists avoid politics, perhaps because they have a weather eye on government grants. I know I was refused a second senior literary grant because I wouldn't entertain post modernism as a valid discipline for its rules barred it from being so.
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