Archive for June 13, 2009
BEIJING COMA by Ma Jian
The novel Beijing Coma follows the fictional Dai Wei, a PhD candidate at Beijing University who became a student leader of the protesters in Tiananmen Square during the momentous and tragic month of June, 1989. As the Chinese army was ordered to storm the Square to take back control and subdue the ring leaders by any means necessary, many of Wei’s friends and associates were gunned down or simply run over. That famous actual video of the tank column stopped dead before a single brave man was an aberration. As Wei saw…
June 13, 2009
Tags: Beijing, Chinese, Coma, Real Event Fiction, Tiananmen Square Posted in: China, Facing History, Fiction based on Real Event, Literary, Translated 
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