Award-winning satirist Yan Lianke says Chinese intellectuals and writers must push leaders to embrace social reformChinese writers have shirked their responsibilities in the face of tougher censorship over the past 10 years, one of the country's authors has said.Yan Lianke, whose bleakly humorous novel Lenin's Kisses is published in Britain on Thursday, had two books banned in the past decade. He said it had been easier to publish in the five years before that.He also criticised the intelligentsia – including last year's Nobel literature prize-winner Mo Yan – for failing to speak out on ... Read More