For a song and one hundred songs
Subtitle: a poet's journey through a Chinese prison
By: Liao Yiwu ; translated from the Chinese by Wen Huang
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780547892634
Subjects: Prisoners; Biography
Description: From the renowned Chinese poet in exile comes a gorgeous and shocking account of his years in prison following the Tiananmen Square protests.
Table of contents: title: Foreword by Herta Møller; title: Preface; title: The wandering poet (1988/1999); title: Fei Fei; title: The poet as a young man; title: The city of Fuling; title: The patriotic Canadian; title: "Massacre"; title: A xia; title: "Requiem"; title: The investigation center (March 1990/June 1990); title: The arrest; title: My accomplices; title: The "menu"; title: Interrogations; title: The fantasy of escape; title: "Confess and report on others"; title: A day in the life of an inmate; title: The artist chief; title: Isolation; title: Dignity; title: The new chief; title: The detention center (June 1990/August 1992); title: The living dead; title: The suicide watch; title: Under the sun; title: My new neighbor; title: Officer Gong; title: The model cell; title: The "death squad"; title: Free labor; title: The wife killer; title: Dead Chang's "departure"; title: The living dead ponders death; title: The banker; title: The luxury of reading; title: For a song and one hundred songs; title: The trial; title: Power comes from the muzzle of the gun; title: Toothpaste; title: Prison (August 1992/January 1994); title: No. 2 prison; title: Unexpected visitors; title: The no. 3 prison; title: Reform through physical labor; title: The 89ers; title: My flute teacher; title: Epilogue; title: Massacre; title: Acknowledgments; title: About the author.