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Bullets and Opium

Real-Life Stories of China After the Tiananmen Square Massacre

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Bullets and Opium

By: Liao Yiwu
Narrated by: Francois Chau, Edward Chen
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 A “memorable series of portraits of the working class people who defended Tiananmen Square” (The New York Review of Books) during the protests from the award-winning poet, dissident, and “one of the most original and remarkable Chinese writers of our time” (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 Yiwu—a master of contemporary Chinese literature, imprisoned and persecuted as a counter-revolutionary until he fled the country in 2011—secretly 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society for thirty years, their harrowing and unforgettable stories are now finally revealed in this “indispensable historical document” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Activists Asia China Freedom & Security Politics & Activism Politics & Government World
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This book did not shed any new light on the human rights violations perpetrated by the Chinese government for me. I found the stories very repetitive and quite depressing to listen to.

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