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Tiananmen's Wake.('Beijing Coma: A Novel')
It is still not clear how many unarmed civilians the People's Liberation Army (P.L.A.) killed in Beijing on the night of June 3, 1989, as it sought to expel protestors from Tiananmen Square. The names of the victims, who were officially denounced as "counter-revolutionaries," were never published. Their relatives are forbidden from mourning them in public. On every anniversary of the massacre, policemen proliferate in the square, quick to extinguish any attempt at honoring the dead and wounded. The massacre cannot even be mentioned in the Chinese media.
This attempt to engineer collective amnesia seems to have worked: some students at Beijing University recently ...
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- Magazine article from: Newsweek International Baker, Katie August 25, 2008 700+ words
...his new novel, "Beijing Coma." The story follows Dai Wei, who grew up the...Army opens fire and Dai Wei takes a bullet to...the ensuing decade, Dai Wei languishes as a...squabbles. But "Beijing Coma's" descriptions...
- Beijing Coma.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: World Literature Today Cheuse, Alan November 1, 2008 700+ words
Beijing Coma, by Ma Jian Farrar, Straus...In his latest novel, Beijing Coma, translated by Flora Drew...Tiananmen Square massacre. Beijing Coma is set ten years after the...Tiananmen Square in China. Dai Wei, a university student...
- Beijing Coma.(Brief article)(Book review)
- Magazine article from: New Internationalist Jian, Ma June 1, 2008 700+ words
...his latest novel Beijing Coma, Ma Jian has undertaken...the novel is on Dai Wei, one of the student...crush the protest, Dai Wei is shot in the head...the occupation and Dai Wei's thoughts as...rights record, Beijing Coma could hardly be...
- Building bridges: books that cross the borders of war and peace, faith and...
- Magazine article from: Sojourners Magazine Marsh, Molly November 1, 2008 700+ words
...ways with the forces of colonialism, globalization, and modernity. (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006) Beijing Coma, by Ma Jian Dai Wei had been a molecular biology student at Beijing University when he was shot in the head during the Tiananmen...
- China's dreaming
- Magazine article from: New Statesman Fitzgerald, Mary June 16, 2008 700+ words
China's dreaming Beijing Coma Ma Jian Chatto & Windus, 586 pp. 17.99 From his hospital bed where he lies in a coma, Dai Wei, a young man shot by a soldier during the 1989 Tiananmen Square uprising, recounts the story of his life...
- LSI Logic Opens Design Facility in Beijing
- Press release article from: PR Newswire August 5, 1998 700+ words
...MII) and Chinese manufacturers in accelerating consumer electronics market growth." Heading the Beijing design facility is Dai Wei Yeo, applications manager, who was promoted to the new post from his position as applications engineer in LSI Logic's Pan...
- Infor gives Huolinhe Coal Industry efficient control over assets and...
- Press release article from: M2 Presswire April 25, 2007 700+ words
...metrics from different systems. The solution will help its management to revolutionize and modernize the Huolinhe Coal," said Dai Wei, General Manager of Shanghai Renmai Technology Co Ltd, Infor's executive partner for this project. About Infor EAM Infor...
- Lucent Technologies Wins Cabling Infrastructure Contract for China's 8th...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire August 21, 1997 700+ words
...This is why we chose Lucent Technologies' SYSTIMAX to provide the Cabling systems for our communications requirements," said Dai Wei-yong, a member of the Preparatory Committee of the 8th National Games of the PRC and chief of the Preparatory Committee of...