Bullets And Opium: Real-life Stories Of China After The Tiananmen Square Massacre
- Author: Liao Yiwu
- Narrator: Edward Chen
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Duration: 9:59:46
Synopsis
“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 An indispensable historical document.”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.
Chapters
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001 BulletsandOpium Open
Duration: 01min -
002 BulletsandOpium Introduction
Duration: 11min -
003 BulletsandOpium Prologue
Duration: 39min -
004 BulletsandOpium PERFORMANCE ARTIST
Duration: 44min -
005 BulletsandOpium MASSACRE PAINTER
Duration: 42min -
006 BulletsandOpium IDEALIST
Duration: 22min -
007 BulletsandOpium ARSONISTS
Duration: 39min -
008 BulletsandOpium CAPTAIN
Duration: 50min -
009 BulletsandOpium SQUAD LEADER
Duration: 26min -
010 BulletsandOpium STREET FIGHTER
Duration: 25min -
011 BulletsandOpium HOOLIGAN
Duration: 25min -
012 BulletsandOpium PRISONER OF CONSCIENCE
Duration: 36min -
013 BulletsandOpium ANIMAL TAMER
Duration: 12min -
014 BulletsandOpium ACCOMPLICE
Duration: 29min -
015 BulletsandOpium POET
Duration: 40min -
016 BulletsandOpium PRISONERS
Duration: 50min -
017 BulletsandOpium AUTHOR
Duration: 35min -
018 BulletsandOpium AFTERWORD
Duration: 50min -
019 BulletsandOpium APPENDIX 1
Duration: 13min -
020 BulletsandOpium Credits
Duration: 01min