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
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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 An indispensable historical document.”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

  • 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