![]() ![]() He returns to his own story in the final chapter, and fantasises about museums and monuments in China to political movements: “How will our children and grandchildren find a place to live in a country crowded with so many monuments?” The corpse walker) while under constant harrassment, before fleeing to Berlin in 2011. He himself spent four years in prison after 1989, going on to document these first-hand accounts (cf. Ross Perlin, 2020).Īfter Ian Johnson’s lucid introduction, reflecting on the “failed revolution”, Liao Yiwu ( provides a useful Prologue. Liao Yiwu, Bullets and opium : real-life stories of China after the Tiananmen Square massacre (German edition 2012 new English edition translated by David Cowhig and Jessie Cowhig, ed. ![]() this list, with perceptive reflections by Jeff Wasserstrom) is A valuable recent addition to the extensive literature published abroad (see e.g. Within China, as for the whole of the Maoist era, public memory of the righteous student protests of 1989 in China continues to be repressed. ![]()
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