Bullets and Opium
by Liao Yiwu
2020-12-29 18:29:04
A â memorable series of portraits of the working class people who defended Tiananmen Squareâ (The New York Review of Books) during the protests from the award-winning poet, dissident, and âone of the most original and remarkable Chines...
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A â memorable series of portraits of the working class people who defended Tiananmen Squareâ (The New York Review of Books) during the protests from the award-winning poet, dissident, and âone of the most original and remarkable Chinese writers of our timeâ (Philip Gourevitch). Much has been written about the Tiananmen Square protests, but very little exists in the words of those who were actually there. For over seven years, Liao Yiwuâa master of contemporary Chinese literature, imprisoned and persecuted as a counter-revolutionary until he fled the country in 2011âsecretly interviewed survivors of the devastating 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. Tortured, imprisoned, and forced into silence and the margins of Chinese society for thirty years, their harrowing and unforgettable stories are now finally revealed in this âindispensable historical documentâ (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
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