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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, a professor at the University of Nottingham, read to the small, predominantly Asian audience.
