Beijing Coma: A Novel

Dai Wei a PhD student and protestor in Tiananmen Square in June 1989 was caught by a soldiers bullet and fell into a deep coma. But as the millennium draws near he begins to emerge from unconsciousness and to sense the massive changes in his country. At once a powerful allegory of a rising China and a seminal story of the Tiananmen Square protests Beijing Coma is Ma Jians masterpiece.