by Scott Savitt Saturday June 3, 1989 8 p.m. It’s still light outside. I haven’t slept in 48 hours. I feel like I’m moving in slow motion. All I wantContinue readingEyewitness Account Of Massacre

by Wang Dan, translated from the Chinese by Karl Lund PREFACE This year marks the 30th anniversary of China’s “Democracy Movement of 1989” and the subsequent tragedy of June 4th.Continue readingPreface to The People’s Republic of Amnesia: Tian’anmen Revisited

by Hoi Leung Task of Remembrance as both a literal and metaphorical anniversary lends itself to exploring the complexity, gravity, and responsibility of remembering, such as in faulty recording devices,Continue readingTask of Remembrance

by Louisa Lim 所有的道路都被封闭            All roadways are blocked 所有的眼泪都被监控            All tears are under surveillance 所有的鲜花都被跟踪            All fresh flowers are shadowed 所有的记忆都被清洗            All memories are purged 所有的墓碑仍是空白            All tombstones are stillContinue readingUnlocking Forbidden Memories

by Jeff Wasserstrom In a recent essay for the New York Times looking back to Chinese events of one hundred years ago, I referred to an April tweet by JoshuaContinue readingChina and Orwell’s Novel—No, Not the One about Big Brother

by Jed Lea-Henry It is the wide streets that hit you first, hollowing-out and exposing the centre. Then, chastened and austere, the architecture does something unexpected. The simple blocked structuresContinue readingTiananmen of the Mind

by Jason G. Coe Written outside of Legco at 4 a.m. on Wednesday 12 June 2019. Dear Meatball, Sorry I haven’t written in so long. Although, for you, reading this,Continue readingA Letter To My Son

by Ting Guo The first person to openly challenge Mao’s authority in China was a young woman named Lin Zhao 林昭 (1932-1968). She was a poet, journalist, and dissident whoContinue readingLin Zhao: A Martyr In Mao’s China Who Created Our Genealogy