(04/06/1989 - 04/06/2019)
Thirty years ago, Tian'anmen protests ended in a bloodbath, commonly known as the Tian'anmen Square Massacre. The movement of students, intellectuals and Chinese workers demanded more democracy and denounced a society corrupted by corruption. To understand the steps that have led China to practice such a radical repression of protest movements and to lock the society, we advise you to read the novel of Paul Greveillac, "MAITRES ET ESCLAVES", finalist of the price Goncourt and laureate of the price Jean Giono 2018.
In this novel, conceived as an ambitious and richly documented historical fresco, Paul Greveillac interweaves small and great history through Kewein's fate. Born in 1950 in a peasant family at the foot of the Himalayas, Kewei escaped agricultural labor and permanent re-education by leaving to study at Beijing Fine Arts, leaving behind his mother, his young wife, their son and a village whose ancestral traditions are disappearing under the blows of the Revolution.
In the big city, Kewei rubs shoulders with the masters of the new China. He gets the Party card. Become a painter of the regime, he knows an ascent without limit. But history will soon catch up with him.
Have you read Paul Greveillac's novel?
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