I put this book five stars simply: for how to judge an honest and sincere testimony more results ??? And I knew more or less what to expect; I enjoyed this brief dive into an iniquitous system -and an absolutely cynical pull it looks like our medieval and yet that comes our recent history and that must always be the same as of today ... This book shows us the relentless repression after the massacre of 89 against any person who participated from far and near to the momentum of democratic freedom and our author had the deadly nerve to write and then publish then mettre- en-scene a long poem about the bloody crackdown in Tiananmen Square as soon as the power had cleaned the revolt against-revolutionary, it had not happened, not a dead, just terrorist acts wisely suppressed .. . 4 years of a picaresque journey inside different prisons infiltrated by promiscuity, ordinary sadism, the flagrant injustice, fighting between prisoners, beatings, mental torture as well as physical ... sometimes it's unbearable ... but still uplifting for all who still doubt that China is not a cold and repressive dictatorship.
"The artists that counteract the amnesia of humanity are not rare. Thanks to them, we have access to shameful episodes in the history, as with the plays of Czech President Havel, and The Gulag Archipelago Solzhenitsyn . They will witness the misfortunes of an era can be found proof in many writings. This is the only way in which artists have to participate in the story, and this means is noble - although for a egg hit a stone is not wise. " p79
"The harshest tortures a poet can offer a cure hallucinations. Only by feeling the suffering of the flesh that our minds can stay alert and free from confusion and corsetages of our lives." p322
