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China's Patriot Games

The patriot games

By Lindsey Hilsum - 31 July

Neighbourhoods have been razed, protesters silenced and human rights activists jailed. China will allow nothing to get in the way of the success of the Beijing Olympics

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China's secret grief

By Ma Jian - 31 July

Mourning the victims of the May earthquake has reminded a nation of the deaths it is forbidden to recall - the students of Tiananmen and the tens of millions who lost their lives under Mao

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Banning Tibet

By Woeser - 31 July

Woeser on how China closed a country

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Spitting image

By Lijia Zhang - 31 July

As the Games approach, the state is trying to wipe out habits visitors may find offensive

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Party lines

By Yiyun Li - 31 July

The Chinese Writers' Association employs 5,196 of the country's most popular and influential authors. In return, it expects them to produce poems, novels - and state propaganda