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Dai Wei, a PhD student and protestor in Tiananmen Square in June 1989, was caught by a soldier's bullet and fell into a deep coma. But as the millennium draws near, he begins to emerge from unconsciousness, and to sense the massive changes in his country. At once a powerful allegory of a rising China, and a seminal story of the Tiananmen Square protests, Beijing Coma is Ma Jian's masterpiece.
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Beijing Coma, Jian Ma, Flora Drew
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- Released
- 2009
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- Title
- Beijing Coma
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Jian Ma, Flora Drew
- Publisher
- St Martins Pr
- Released
- 2009
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 720
- ISBN13
- 9780312428365
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Politics, Asia, China, Communism, Cruelty, Terror, Chinese Literature, Coma, Beijing
- Original title
- Beijing coma
- Rating
- 3.9 out of 5
- Description
- Dai Wei, a PhD student and protestor in Tiananmen Square in June 1989, was caught by a soldier's bullet and fell into a deep coma. But as the millennium draws near, he begins to emerge from unconsciousness, and to sense the massive changes in his country. At once a powerful allegory of a rising China, and a seminal story of the Tiananmen Square protests, Beijing Coma is Ma Jian's masterpiece.