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The Blood-Stained Square

The Blood-Stained Square
Millions of Chinese people came to Tiananmen Square to support the pro-democracy student protests in Beijing in 1989. Courtesy of Ma Jian
Ma Jian
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As I stood in the Inter-Parliamentary Union conference room of the UK Parliament, presenting photos I took 35 years ago in Tiananmen Square of a student hunger strike, Russian President Vladimir Putin was standing on Tiananmen Square, stepping onto the blood-red carpet laid out by Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

Ma Jian
Ma Jian
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Ma Jian is a Chinese writer exiled in the UK. His books include “The Noodle Maker,” “Nine Forked Roads,” “Thinking,” and “Red Dust,” which won the 2002 Thomas Cook International Travel Literature Award in the UK. In 2005, he was named one of the 50 most important writers in the world in the 21st century by French literary magazine Lire. Many of his novels have been translated into nearly 30 languages and distributed around the world, and he was nominated as a candidate for the Swedish Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013 and 2014.
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