After China's re-entry into the international arena, it was hoped that a Chinese writer could one day win acclaim both in China and in the West.

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"You can read it as poetry, " said Sun Ganlu, a prominent 54-year-old Chinese writer whose work has been translated into English, French and Japanese.

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To find out more about that I spoke to Liz Carter, a writer for the website Tea Leaf Nation, which follows and reports on activity in Chinese social media.

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