David
Rice

Song of Tiananmen Square is David Rice's fifth book and second novel. A native of Northern Ireland, he has worked as a journalist on three continents. He has also been a Dominican friar. In the 1970s he was an editor and award-winning syndicated columnist in the United States, and returned to Ireland in 1980 to head the prestigious Rathmines School of Journalism.

In 1989 he was invited to Beijing to train journalists on behalf of Xinhua, the Chinese government news agency, and to work as an editor with China Features. He was in Beijing during the massacre, and returned later to interview secretly 400 of the young people who had been involved at Tiananmen Square.

His No.1 best-selling Shattered Vows led to the acclaimed Channel 4 documentary, Priests of Passion, which he presented, and which has been seen on television throughout the world.

He now  lives in Co Tipperary and teaches Writing Skills at the University of Limerick.