Liao Ao's Memoirs

Author: Li Ao
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Publish Date: 2004-08-01
Features: Speaking what others cannot speak, speaking what others dare not speak; cursing all famous figures yet remaining unharmed; living in chaos yet maintaining lifelong arrogance; taking pride in extraordinary achievements in virtue and words! The towering, unconventional Li Ao, with his dramatic rise and fall in life, is like a modern legend. From a literary comet to a widely condemned poison, from a debate hero to fourteen years of imprisonment, with ninety-six of his books banned, Li Ao has always faced it all with composure and resilience. This book is a faithful self-narrative of Li Ao and his confrontation with the times. Speaking what others cannot speak, speaking what others dare not speak, cursing all famous figures yet remaining unharmed; living in chaos yet maintaining lifelong arrogance; taking pride in extraordinary achievements in virtue and words. The towering, unconventional Li Ao, with his dramatic rise and fall in life, is like a modern legend. From a literary comet to a widely condemned poison, from a debate hero to fourteen years of imprisonment, with ninety-six of his books banned, Li Ao has always faced it all with composure and resilience, this memoir being a faithful self-narrative of Li Ao and his confrontation with the times.