Step into a Chinese Rashomon and embark upon an illuminating journey into twentieth-century Chinese history and the elusive nature of truth. An engrossing literary achievement and editorial tour de force, Colorature is a compilation of faux historical documents, invented archival materials and imaginary interviews spanning the Communist Revolution, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and the present day to recount the search for the "historical truth" about the life and death of revolutionary poet Ge Ren. Was he a hero, a Nationalist or a Communist, a scholar, a spy or a traitor - or a combination of all those identities?