China: writer turns into beggar

Zhao Mu comments on a recent report on a famous writer, Hung Feng, who has turned into a beggar because the government stopped subsidizing his work. Zhao Mu said that Hung's experience shows that the tradition of state-sponsored cultural and literary workers has become a history (zh).

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