Bullets and Opium by Liao Yiwu

Bullets and Opium by Liao Yiwu

“Moving…a memorable series of portraits of the working-class people who defended Tiananmen Square." —The New York Review of Books “A series of harrowing, unforgettable tales...Had [Liao Yiwu] not fled the country in 2011, they may never have emerged. An indispensable historical document.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Liao Yiwu’s searing account of what happened in Beijing on June 4, 1989, and its lasting impact, doggedly collected from witnesses, demands attention.” —South China Morning Post From the award-winning poet, dissident, and “one of the most original and remarkable Chinese writers of our time” (Philip Gourevitch) comes a raw, evocative, and unforgettable look at the Tiananmen Square massacre through the eyes of those who were 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 stories are now finally revealed in this gripping and masterful work of investigative journalism.

“Moving… a memorable series of portraits of the working-class people who defended Tiananmen Square"  * New York Review of Books *
“Liao shows that it was working-class Beijingers who made the supreme sacrifice”  * The New York Times *
“Liao Yiwu’s searing account of what happened in Beijing on June 4, 1989, and its lasting impact, doggedly collected from witnesses, demands attention.” * South China Morning Post *
“This captivating work is essential for readers interested in China’s recent history.” * Library Journal (starred) *

Liao Yiwu is a writer, musician, and poet from Sichaun, China. He is the author of The Corpse Walker, God Is Red, and For a Song and a Hundred Songs, a memoir of the four years he spent in prison after the Tiananmen Square Massacre. His work has been published in Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Poland, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, and Sweden. He has received numerous awards, including the prestigious 2012 Peace Prize awarded by the German Book Trade and the Disturbing the Peace Award given by the Václav Havel Library Foundation. Liao escaped from China in July 2011 and currently lives in Berlin, Germany.

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ISBN 13	9781982126643
ISBN 10	1982126647
Title	Bullets and Opium
Author	Liao Yiwu
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Publisher	Simon & Schuster
Year published	2019-05-16
Number of pages	320
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