This article also has some questionable (racist?) stuff. Like what does he mean by 'Chinese society'?

"Types are central to the way Liu thinks of people; he has a knack for quickly sketching the various classes that make up Chinese society."

Some more:

"Much of the books’ resonance, however, comes from the fact that they also offer a faithful portrait of China’s stringently hierarchical bureaucracy, that labyrinthine product of Communism."

This is the worst offender:

"Liu closed his eyes for a long moment and then said quietly, “This is why I don’t like to talk about subjects like this. The truth is you don’t really—I mean, can’t truly—understand.” He gestured around him. “You’ve lived here, in the U.S., for, what, going on three decades?” The implication was clear: years in the West had brainwashed me. In that moment, in Liu’s mind, I, with my inflexible sense of morality, was the alien."

He also talked about a million Uyghur's in re-education camps, the one child policy, and cremation as opposed to burying people in the ground.