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

Much has been written about the Tiananmen Square protests, but very little exists in the words of those who were actually there.

Over a period of 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, confined, and forced into silence on the margins of Chinese society for more than thirty years, their harrowing and unforgettable stories are now finally revealed.