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Written in a first person's perspective, Li Lu captures the true stories of what happened in that fateful day. A day that we shall never forget. The blood, the tears and the broken-hearts of patriotic young people who lost their lives in that day shall be remembered. Reading Chai Ling's speech made my eyes well up in tears for her love for the nation. Also made me wonder what is Li Lu doing these days working as a fund manager - has he forgotten his sense of purpose? or has he just grown old and gave up his dreams to move mountains?
A very quarky book that is quite entertaining. Once you figure out that all is not what is seems, the book begins to speed up cullminating with a great "bang" in the end. Very enjoyable.
I was exposed to this book very early as I was volunteering at the Tilden Botanical Garden of Californian Native Plants just before the book was published. I learned a lot from the head of the garden as he talked about it. I think he was reviewing it just before it was published. I incidentally later went to UC Davis and took a class from the author. Although Barbour's research is inspiring as is this book, my academic experience with him was unfortunately not so great. I credit this to my poor attitude at the time. In anycase, the photgraphs in this book are excellent. Each chapter is well organized. And even now, more than 13 years later I pull this book of the shelf time and again to review a section of it.