I Wanted To Analyse And Understand How

The Literal Meaning Of The Chinese Characters For Revolution Is Elimination Of Life

In February Of This Year I Returned To China To Research My Next Book. The Authorities Know About The Novels Of Mine That Have Been Published In The West, Including The Latest One, Beijing Coma, About A Student Shot In Tiananmen Square, But So Far Have Allowed Me To Return.

Beijing Coma Took Me 10 Years To Finish.

Red Dust Was About The Late 1980s; It Was A Time Of Burgeoning Hopes And Opening Up And People Searching For New Ways.

I Wanted To Analyse And Understand How The Chinese People Could Have Their Lives So Crushed By Fear.