37 years after #June4, who gets to write about it, for whose consumption, and to what end? For @chinabooksreview.com, I examine Tiananmen in novels. The real question is not whether historical accuracy can give way to poetic license, but what truths are sought and revealed by the imaginary accounts.
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After 37 years, the Tiananmen Square protests and crackdown of 1989 have been preserved in novels as much as in memory. But does the Anglophone literary imagination get it right?
