LETTER FROM CHINA about the boom in illicit publishing and the opening commercial Radio & TV channels in China. WriterJia Lusheng, survivor of Tiananmen Square crackdown, is in the forefront of a new style of Chinese journalism, known as baogao wenxue (“literary reportage”). This is also the name of an influential journal. Jia’s muckraking articles and books reveal China’s underclass of beggars, prostitutes, etc. China’s official publishing system is controlled by the State General Press and Publications Administration.