Bloody poetry at Yale
In solitary confinement in Tilanqiao Prison, Lin Zhao wrote: “I’d rather die free / than a slave in prison be.” What makes such harrowing words all the more disturbing is that they were marked on the cell walls in her own blood. She wrote tens of thousands of vicious letters and poems condemning Communist dictatorship, which have been largely forgotten. She was impatient for change. Too impatient, perhaps: she was executed in 1968 at age 35.
“In Search of Lin Zhao’s Soul,” preserves her memory. Sponsored by the Film Studies Program and the Council on East Asian Studies, the...
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