For a song and a hundred songs : a poet's journey through a Chinese prison

For a song and a hundred songs : a poet's journey through a Chinese prison /

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From the renowned Chinese poet in exile comes a gorgeous and shocking account of his years in prison following the Tiananmen Square protests.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Liao, Yiwu, 1958-
Format: Book
Language:English
Chinese
Published: Boston : New Harvest Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.
Subjects:
Liao, Yiwu, > 1958-
Prisoners > China > Biography.
Prisonniers > Chine > Biographies.
Prisoners.
China > History > Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989.
China.
Autobiography
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword by Herta Møller
  • Preface
  • The wandering poet (1988/1999)
  • Fei Fei
  • The poet as a young man
  • The city of Fuling
  • The patriotic Canadian
  • "Massacre"
  • A xia
  • "Requiem"
  • The investigation center (March 1990/June 1990)
  • The arrest
  • My accomplices
  • The "menu"
  • Interrogations
  • The fantasy of escape
  • "Confess and report on others"
  • A day in the life of an inmate
  • The artist chief
  • Isolation
  • Dignity
  • The new chief
  • The detention center (June 1990/August 1992)
  • The living dead
  • The suicide watch
  • Under the sun
  • My new neighbor
  • Officer Gong
  • The model cell
  • The "death squad"
  • Free labor
  • The wife killer
  • Dead Chang's "departure"
  • The living dead ponders death
  • The banker
  • The luxury of reading
  • For a song and one hundred songs
  • The trial
  • Power comes from the muzzle of the gun
  • Toothpaste
  • Prison (August 1992/January 1994)
  • No. 2 prison
  • Unexpected visitors
  • The no. 3 prison
  • Reform through physical labor
  • The 89ers
  • My flute teacher
  • Epilogue
  • Massacre
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the author.

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