On 24 November, exactly two years after a fire in an apartment building in Xinjiang killed 10 people and sparked a wave of historic protests across China, two dozen people gathered in a small bookshop in the Netherlands to reflect on the event.
“When anger becomes infectious, / when words are seen to be dangerous, / leave me blank, please!” Hongwei Bao, an associate professor at the University of Nottingham, read to the small, predominantly Asian audience.
