In the canon
The Gate of Heavenly Peace
- Form
- Form Non-fiction
- Year
- Year 1981
- Pages
- Pages 465
Lu Xun asked a friend to imagine an iron house, windowless and unbreakable, its sleepers dying quietly of suffocation. Would it be a kindness to wake the few who could still be woken, to a death they could not escape anyway?
Now there were so many heads in such a big heap, and every one of them dripping blood, freshly cut from human necks.
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