much has changed in the world since communist china’s brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protesters at tiananmen square on june 3-4, 1989. however, in china, while the citizens have been keeping the spirit of ‘goddess of democracy’ alive in one way or the other, the authoratarian regime has been busy tightening its grip on public life to enforce ‘collective amnesia’. but, as the recent happenings in china show, people have not forgotten tiananmen square massacre. the lies in ink have failed to dilute the fac
Every spring, an old friend of mine named Xu Jue makes a trip to the Babaoshan cemetery in the western suburbs of Beijing to lay flowers on the tombs of her dead son and husband. She always plans her visit for April 5, which is the holiday of Pure Brightness, or Qingming. The traditional Chinese calendar has three festivals to honor the dead and Qingming is the most
Fang Lizhi, a distinguished professor of astrophysics, luminary in the struggle for human rights in contemporary China, and frequent contributor to The New York Review, died suddenly on the morning of April 6. At age seventy-six he had not yet retired, and was preparing to leave home to teach a class when he commented to his wife that he did not feel quite right. She urged him
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