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  • Bullets and Opium

  • Real-Life Stories of China After the Tiananmen Square Massacre
  • By: Liao Yiwu
  • Narrated by: Francois Chau, Edward Chen
  • Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (17 ratings)

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Bullets and Opium

By: Liao Yiwu
Narrated by: Francois Chau, Edward Chen
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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 more than seven years, Liao Yiwu - a master of contemporary Chinese literature, imprisoned and persecuted as a counterrevolutionary 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 30 years, their harrowing stories are now finally revealed in this gripping and masterful work of investigative journalism.

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©2019 Liao Yiwu (P)2019 Simon & Schuster
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Will change how you view China.

This book is extremely disturbing and filled with the horrors of chinese imprisonment. It illustrates its people not as martyrs, but as normal battered people who have suffered tremendously. The things said of him are correct, Liao Yiwu is a modern day chinese Solzhenitsyn.

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It's History remember it!

O what a world we would have if people would set aside there media and learn about history, in context leaving aside the peanut gallery. I enjoy history in biography form with personal testimonies. I recommend this book to anyone that would like to see how tyrannical governments act and how the people suffer.
How do leaders end up so nasty? simple as Jesus told the religious people in his day you fallow your father the devil. Satan is alive and well, until Jesus returns and every knee will bow and tung confess that Jesus is LORD both in heaven and earth to the glory of God.

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