Artist Badiucao hides his identity to avoid the attention Chinese authorities as one of many creatives who are under surveillance.
13 Sep 2019
Miriam Cosic
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Many Chinese dissidents are surveilled by the Chinese government; image Shutterstock.
It was 2009 when the Chinese political cartoonist Badiucao brought himself to voluntary exile in Melbourne, 2013 when he became an Australian citizen. Despite the relative political safety that move gave him, he has for years masked himself whenever he has gone out in public. He goes under an assumed name and years ago broke off contact with his family for their safety.
Miriam Cosic is a journalist and author, and Arts and Literary editor of the Australian (1996-2012). She also wrote for The Sydney Morning Herald from1993-96, and is currently a freelance contributor to The Saturday Paper, The Monthly, The Guardian among others.
Born in Melbourne, she now lives in Sydney and is the author of Only Child (1999) and Right to Die: An Examination of the Euthanasia Debate (2003).
