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"The soldier Zhao and the young rebel Ayamei are wandering through the gloomy streets of Peking. The Place of Heavenly Peace[Tiananmen Square] is full of the students' blood. The blood of the children of the new China, brought up in the stifling ideology of Maoist regime. Ayamei goes into hiding, leaves Beijing, stays about 60 miles away, ultimately escapes to the mountains. Zhao untiringly follows her; her treads on her heels. His persistence matches his faith in the regime; it is blind and infinite..."--Translated from p. [4] of cover