| Beijing Coma Contributor(s): Jian, Ma (Author), Drew, Flora (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0312428367 ISBN-13: 9780312428365 Publisher: Picador USA OUR PRICE: $24.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2009 Annotation: Dai Wei, a medical student and protestor in Tianan-men 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Political - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 1.25" H x 5.54" W x 8.2" (1.25 lbs) 720 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Chinese |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Jian, Ma: - Ma Jian was born in Qingdao, China, in 1953. He worked as a watch-mender's apprentice, a painter of propaganda boards, and a photojournalist. At the age of thirty, he left his job and traveled for three years across China. In 1987 he completed Stick Out Your Tongue, which prompted the Chinese government to ban his future work. Ma Jian left Beijing for Hong Kong in 1987 as a dissident, but he continued to travel to China, and he supported the pro-democracy activists in Tiananmen Square in 1989. After the handover of Hong Kong he moved to Germany and then London, where he now lives. |
