Bullets and Opium: Real-Life Stories of China After the Tiananmen Square Massacre by Liao Yiwu

Bullets and Opium: Real-Life Stories of China After the Tiananmen Square Massacre

Liao Yiwu

320 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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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 ...

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challenging 85%
informative 71%
sad 71%
dark 42%
emotional 42%
reflective 42%
tense 28%

Pace

slow 57%
medium 42%

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3.96

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