It was interesting reading about what life was like in China at the end of the Cultural Revolution, the impact that the death of Hu YaoBang had and the frustration that many students felt after suffering through years of corruption, nepotism and economic failures. Our Shattered Hopes lists all of the key people who were involved in the protest (as well as some fictional characters who were added to help tell the story) and goes into the history of the Tiananmen Square protest movement and massacre.
Like many other people, I had seen footage of the massacre on television, and clips of the famous Tank Man bravely facing down a line of tanks. When I first picked up this book, I did not know too much about the Tiananmen Square Massacre. Tiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes was a fascinating, sombre, and terrifying glimpse into the political climate that existed in China in 1989. Zhang and Gombeaud have written a gripping narrative that sheds light on the political climate in China in 1989 and the Chinese student protest movement who staged a hunger strike and stood up to tanks and rifles to fight for democracy. It is not an autobiography and uses some fiction elements to tell a dramatized version of the events surrounding and leading up to the Tiananmen Square Massacre. Our Shattered Hopes is based off his eyewitness account of the 1989 protests. Our Shattered Hopes is told from the point of view of Zhang, who was a young sociology teacher living in China in 1989, and was in charge of the management and safety of the student protesters in Tiananmen. It is 112 pages long and was published by IDW in June 2020. Tiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes is a semi-autobiographical graphic novel about the Tiananmen Square Massacre that was written by Lun Zhang and Adrien Gombeaud and illustrated by Ameziane.
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