En Liang Khong

En Liang Khong is assistant editor at openDemocracy. He has been published in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Prospect, Frieze, the New Statesman, the Daily Telegraph, the New Inquiry, 1843, and the Financial Times. He is the recipient of Oxford University's C.V. Wedgwood award for History, and is the 2008 BBC Young Composer of the Year. Follow him on Twitter: @en_khong and read more of his work here.

An artist’s duty: an interview with Ai Weiwei

Still denied his passport after nearly three years, Ai Weiwei exists in a strange purgatory. In this exclusive openDemocracy interview, the dissident Chinese artist speaks truth to power, as China’s exploitative processes of development demand great responsibility from the nation’s intellectual an

By En Liang Khong and Ai Weiwei

/ 6 Jan 2014

Wild ghosts: Bo Xilai on trial

The trial of the disgraced Chinese politician is hurtling towards its predictable conclusion. But a spectre still haunts the Party, and all those at play in China’s political life. It is the spectre of the Cultural Revolution.

By En Liang Khong

/ 26 Aug 2013