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Beijing Coma

Ma Jian

Hardcover | Pages: 586 pages

Rating: 3.85 | 1372 Users | 197 Reviews

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Original Title:	北京植物人
ISBN:	0374110174 (ISBN13: 9780374110178)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2009), Dayton Literary Peace Prize Nominee for Fiction (2009), The Athens Prize for Literature - Περιοδικό (δέ)κατα (2010)

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Dai Wei has been unconscious for almost a decade. A medical student and a pro-democracy protestor in Tiananmen Square in June 1989, he was struck by a soldier’s bullet and fell into a deep coma. As soon as the hospital authorities discovered that he had been an activist, his mother was forced to take him home. She allowed pharmacists access to his body and sold his urine and his left kidney to fund special treatment from Master Yao, a member of the outlawed Falun Gong sect. But during a government crackdown, the Master was arrested, and Dai Wai’s mother—who had fallen in love with him—lost her mind.

As the millennium draws near, a sparrow flies through the window and lands on Dai Wei’s naked chest, a sign that he must emerge from his coma. But China has also undergone a massive transformation while Dai Wei lay unconscious. As he prepares to take leave of his old metal bed, Dai Wei realizes that the rich, imaginative world afforded to him as a coma patient is a startling contrast with the death-in-life of the world outside.

At once a powerful allegory of a rising China, racked by contradictions, and a seminal examination of the Tiananmen Square protests, Beijing Coma is Ma Jian’s masterpiece. Spiked with dark wit, poetic beauty, and deep rage, this extraordinary novel confirms his place as one of the world’s most significant living writers.

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Title	:	Beijing Coma
Author	:	Ma Jian
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 586 pages
Published	:	May 27th 2008 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Categories	:	Cultural. China. Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Asia

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Ratings: 3.85 From 1372 Users | 197 Reviews

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Although intense, this book was beautifully written and served as a true eye-opener. Our comatose narrator, Dai Wei, takes us through his father's plight during the Cultural Revolution, and then his own involvement with the student-led, pro-democracy protests ending tragically at Tiananmen Square in 1989. We see in graphic, gruesome detail a group of students evolve from self-centered, pretentious teens and early twenty somethings, into young adults giving their lives for freedom in China.

Ma Jian spent more than a decade writing this story of the events of Tiananmen Square prompted by his desire to force China to remember the tragic events of its past. He said of the novel: 'I wanted to write a book that would bear witness to recent history and help reclaim a people's right to remember.'As someone who was in Tinanmen Square during the weeks leading up to the tragedy, Ma Jian is perfectly placed to reflect on his country's history. However, it is the way he frames his story that

An absolutely towering masterpiece -- painful, haunting, compelling, and profound. Original and never once dull over the course of 700 pages. I wish I could write some words that would do a work like this justice, that would make more people read it and experience it, but I finished the book about 10 minutes ago and my mind is still reeling. Don't allow the length and the grim subject matter to frighten you away. This is simply one of the best novels I've ever read.

truly, this will induce coma, in beijing or anywhere else. i couldn't get through more than 35 pages. one problem among others: there are no chapters. or sections. or breaks in the text at all. only a single, 586-page stream of multi-tensed consciousness. this book requires a reader with an unheard-of attention span. also, a reader with some knowledge of the history of the cultural revolution. which i do have, and still i was bored. references to the democracy wall movement do little to inspire

A REVOLUTIONARY GOVERNMENT SHOULD LISTEN TO THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE. NOTHING SHOULD FRIGHTEN IT MORE THAN SILENCE. In a little less than a week comes the 28th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre. It would be an interesting calculation to add the ones who want to remember and subtract the ones who want everyone to forget and divide all that by those who think it wasn't important and multiply by those who would die for the sake of continuing the aborted effort if they were only given the

I read this in August.. I made a note after finishing it (and it took some time to finish it): Hard to describe. Too long but shows immaturity of the students. I worry about the Hong Kong protestors of August 2019. Today, 12.31.2019: I think I am less worried about the Hong Kong protestors as of today. They have many other people from different walks of life in Hong Kong on their side.

Beijing Coma is a well-crafted view into both modern day China, as well as China in the 1980s in the years leading up the June 4th massacre. At first I found the more modern sections to be a bit throw away, only really adding a backdrop for the narrators recollections. But, as the book progressed, and the recollections begin to lose themselves in nuanced details of the student movements of the 80s, the more modern section begin to emerge as the more scathing indictment of China, especially as