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Jump to navigationJump to searchTiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes by Lun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator) (view source)
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None of that is here, and indeed I think of few flaws in looking back at this. It teaches anybody, if they needed telling, how graphic novels can at times be the perfect format for portraying such deathly serious subjects with emotional sympathy yet factual detail. And it certainly shows what happened thirty years ago, in that famous concrete public area. The author's hopes of it being a suitable memorial have been superbly met, and the almost out-of-place-seeming optimism of the final scene gives it all a perfect ending.
For a further non-fiction graphic novel from that corner of the world, it's hard to get beyond [[Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea by Guy Delisle]]. [[Age of Discovery: Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance by Ian Goldin and Chris Kutarna]] credits 1990 with being the beginning of a new renaissance: let's hope they are right.
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