From The Dragon's Mouth Summary

Recently the Authoritarian State surpassed Japan in economy. With the government's censoring on media, western countries are unaware of the real China. While it appears that the Chinese economy is doing well and the country seems to be prospering, there are many internal problems within China. All these problems are addressed in the book From the Dragon’s Mouth written by Ana Fuentes. The book features ten stories about real people that each address a different complication. Fuentes expresses the hardships in China, through the eyes of the inhabitants, to divulge all aspects of daily life. The brutality of the government is witnessed in the story titled “Kidnapped by His Own Government”. In this story, Jiang Tianyong is abducted by the Chinese government for questioning the country's human rights. In custody, he was tortured and beaten for nearly two months. During this time he was forced to read out loud the lyrics to songs about the pride of China such as “Wave the Red FLag with Five Stars”. Tianyong …show more content…
Xiao Qiong is unhappily married to Xu Bing. They barely talk to each other, they have never kissed and Xu Bing lives with another man. The main reason that the two got married was to terminate pressure from their parents. Both of their parents have been imploring that they get married and start a family, to not humiliate the family. Another reason that they got married was because Xu Bing did not want anyone to find out that he was gay; in China, homosexual people are often shunned down upon. In an deeply confucian country a family’s reputation is ruined, opportunities are lost and “the cost of coming out of the closet is too high” (45). Even though Xiao Qiong married the man of her dreams, it is completely unlike the romantic movies she watches. Even to this day there are gay people who are in fear to tell their family the