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It's 1983. Scott Savitt, main American exchange students in Beijing, picks up his electric guitar and commences strumming Blackbird. He's soon surrounded by Chinese language students who know every term to every Beatles song he plays. Scott stays on in Beijing, working as a reporter for Asiaweek Magazine. The city's first nightclubs available; rock 'n' spin promises democracy. Marketed to foreign correspondent for the Los Angeles Times then United Press International, Scott sees himself attracted into China's politics heart. Later, at 25 years old, Scott is the youngest licensed foreign correspondent in China with a romantic understanding of Beijing's backstreets. But as the seven-week job of Tiananmen Square leads to bloodshed on June 4, 1989, his greatest asset is his flame-red 500 cc. Honda motor bike - presenting Scott the flexibility to see first-hand the actual Chinese administration still denies ever took place. After Tiananmen, Scott founds the first impartial English-language magazine in China, Beijing Landscape. He is aware that it is only a matter of time before the authorities move in, and affirmed, in 2000 he's arrested, flung into solitary confinement and, after a month in prison, deported. Scott Savitt's memoir becomes this intricate political-historical subject matter into an extraordinary adventure story.
