Dimensions
126 x 197 x 23mm
The day the tanks rolled into Tiananmen Square was the day Diane Wei Liang's life changed forever. As students at Beijing University, she and her sweetheart Dong Yi took part in the peaceful demonstration which provoked the Chinese government's heavy-handed and bloody retaliation. The world's condemnation could not alter the fact that a massacre had occurred before its eyes.
The dramatic event of 4 June 1989 ended dreams of a better life, of democracy and freedom - and of love. Diane and Dong Yi were forced to flee Beijing and did not see each other again. Seven years later Diane returned to China to look for him . . .
'Lake With No Name' is Diane's eyewitness account of that traumatic period. It is both a personal journey and love story and a political testimony which takes us from the Cultural Revolution to a defining moment in China's recent history.
