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Bullets and Opium

  • Writer: Michael Connolly
    Michael Connolly
  • Sep 18
  • 1 min read

Updated: Oct 19

Bullets and Opium: Real-Life Stories of China After the Tiananmen Square Massacre by Liao Yiwu, Translated by David and Jessie Cowhig and Ross Perlin. One Signal Publishers / Atria / Simon & Schuster, 2019 Hardcover. 


The Proletariat

Most reports on what happened at Tianmen Square in June 1989 focus primarily on the student demonstrators, the Capital Autonomous Federation of University Students. In contrast, this book describes the working-class people and peasants who worked with the students to rebel against the Chinese Communist Party. He calls this latter group: Tiananmen Square Disciplinary Patrol Team.

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