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In Ha Jin’s The Crazed, graduate student Jian Wan is assigned to care for his stroke-afflicted advisor, Professor Yang, whose incoherent rants challenge Jian's views on life and politics. As Jian listens, he begins to question his own beliefs and is drawn into the growing revolutionary fervor of 1989 China, eventually finding himself at the pivotal events in Tiananmen Square. The novel includes descriptions of political violence and trauma.