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...Liu Anyi and his wife Li Lanting, the street scenes in Beijing last week seemed eerily reminiscent of another spasm of unrest that began to rock China 23 years ago. Then, as now, students marched in the streets by the hundreds of thousands, waving red flags and chanting slogans defying an entrenched political establishment. Destination: Tiananmen Square. Then, as now, the demonstrators vilified aging national leaders -- including, as he must have recalled bitterly last week, Deng Xiaoping, then Communist Party General Secretary, who at one point was paraded around Beijing wearing a dunce...
...Liu Anyi, then a senior manager in the Ministry of Petroleum, found himself a target because he had worked on Taiwan prior to choosing to return to the mainland shortly before the Communist takeover in 1949. "The Red Guards branded me as a big capitalist and an undercover ((Taiwan)) spy," Liu, 71, recalls with a wry smile. "They kept me in solitary confinement for over a year and later organized a pictorial exhibit of my crimes." These included photos of various articles of Western-style dress belonging to Liu and his wife that Red Guards had found in the course...
...Liu afraid that the current unrest may lead to a second Cultural Revolution? No, mostly because the first explosion was inspired and directed by the country's leader, Mao Zedong. "Today's protest is a genuine student movement, spontaneous, yet well disciplined," he says. "We do not feel threatened." In fact, Liu's son and daughter-in-law have gone to Tiananmen Square to show their solidarity with the protesters...
...Liu Tian Wei: Untitled Work--Mills Gallery through June...
Graduate students Yoshi Futamura, Eckart Lange, and Tsay-Shing Yuan made up Harvard's first team, undergraduates Michael Levin and Yi Gu and grad student Kefeng Liu were on its second team and the third team included undergraduates Louis Tao and Captain Ken Yoon and grad student...