Word: tiananmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHAT happened last Sunday night was, I imagine, destined to happen at some point in the Chinese pro-democracy movement after the Tiananmen Square Massacre of June...
...government crackdown on the movement. Liu Binyan was there to express his displeasure that the movement failed to advance the cause of democracy as far as it could have and failed also to leave a legacy of writings and ideas to carry on after the end of the singular Tiananmen Square gathering...
Wuer Kaixi and Liu Binyan both reflected on the movement that temporarily ended on June 4 in Tiananmen Square--Wuer Kaixi to canonize its martyrs, Liu Binyan to castigate its errors. They are both right, and they are both wrong. No one could possibly fault Wuer Kaixi for waiting never to forget those who died, but he was wrong in thinking that the gathering Sunday was "lighthearted." It was forward-looking as well as backward-looking; imaginative as well as reminiscent. I have wept in memorial of Wuer Kaixi's friends, but for the remembrance to have meaning...
...recently created Harvard Students forDemocratic China also will play an active role inthe week's events with a candle-light vigil Sundaynight to commemorate the six-month anniversary ofJune's Tiananmen Square massacre...
After feeling remorse, I was overcome by paralyzing apprehension. "It can't be this easy," I think, "Something horrible has got to happen." An Eastern European version Tiananmen Square seems unlikely, but the very fact that I couldn't think of any alternative scenario heightened the mystery...