Looking for Tank Man

Thoroughly enjoyed everything about this book, the story, the writing and the historical information. This unusual coming-of age story tells the tale of Pei Lulu as she navigates her life as a female Chinese student in the U.S. in 2008. She first learns of the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre and Tank Man wh......more

For over thirty years Ha Jin has been using his voice through literature to expose the inhumanity of the Chinese Communist Party. His most recent novel Looking for Tank Man (2025) is a memorable academic thriller that confronts China’s systematic attempts to erase the Tiananmen Square massacre from......more

Looking For Tank Man It’s taken me a few days to compose my thoughts on Looking For Tank Man, mainly because the subject matter loomed large over me. The novel follows Lulu, a Chinese academic completing her studies at Harvard and, later, Colombia. Her interests lie in the controversy of the Tiananm......more

I read it pretty quickly because the subject matter was interesting but the dialogue felt hammy to me. Also it really dragged toward the end. I could just barely finish it. And there were a lot of coming of age college cliches here.......more

Great read! I learned significantly about Tiananmen Square, both related recent events and historical occurrences. However, I did feel that the narrator’s voice did not like a female voice always. I loved all the food descriptions.......more