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The collection, made possible through a $50,000 alumni grant, marks the beginning of a special post-Revolutionary China archive at the library, said Eugene Wu, Yenching librarian. The collection will include photographs, literature, documents, video and audio tapes, eyewitness reports and student correspondences, Wu said.
MacFarquhar gave the announcement before a packed auditorium at the Kennedy School of Government last night, where scholars and journalists gave eyewitness accounts of the Beijing crack down.
The Institute of Politics forum, entitled "Eyewitness to a Massacre: Tales from Tianamen Square," included one student and two reporters who were in Beijing the nightthat Chinese army units dispersed students who hadmassed in the Chinese capital for weeks, killinghundreds of them.
This week Massacre in Beijing: China's Struggle for Democracy ($5.95) will go on sale. Overseen by special projects editor Donald Morrison, the paperback includes eyewitness accounts and analysis of the events in Tiananmen Square from Beijing bureau chief Sandra Burton, correspondents David Aikman and Richard Hornik and reporter Jaime...
An eyewitness identified one of the four as having been involved in the vandalism, and the other three were released.