What I have done is to write a new book that is aimed at making sure the massacre simply cannot be forgotten. And already the book has been amazingly successful over here in raising awareness of the massacre. Called Song of Tiananmen Square , the book's secret is that it uses a fiction format to reach a mass readership worldwide, and tell about the massacre. While the story may be fictional, there is absolutely nothing fictional about the massacre account in the book. It tells, in a way never before attempted, the terrible facts of 1989.
Fiction is used deliberately to make the events come alive in everyone's mind.
I was a journalist in Beijing both before and after the massacre. I went back to Beijing later and, while working for Xinhua, secretly interviewed 400 of the young people who had survived the massacre. Finally the security police got on to me, but that's a story in itself. We are all hoping that Song of Tiananmen Square , by raising awareness of the massacre,will frustrate the cover-up. There are already enquiries about filming the story.