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Articles marked Chaohua WangChaohua Wang, the editor of One China, Many Paths, was a member of the standing committee of the Beijing Autonomous Association of College Students in the spring of 1989, and after 4 June was on the Chinese government’s most-wanted list. Her article in this issue is based on two texts, originally written in Chinese, commemorating 4 June this year and last year. From the London Review dated 5 July 2007DiaryContrary to their intention, commemorations of historical events are more often reminders of the power of forgetting: either official ceremonies that gradually lose their meaning, becoming public holidays like any other, or gatherings of tiny bands of militants or mourners, whose numbers dwindle to nothing as the years pass. In Los Angeles, you can see both kinds. If you ask people what Memorial Day stands for, virtually no one, not even professors of history, can tell you. As for the other sort, I myself stand every summer with a small band of friends outside the Chinese consulate in downtown Los Angeles, holding placards scarcely anyone notices. But what we commemorate has, unusually, not been forgotten elsewhere. It is now 18 years since soldiers and tanks entered Tiananmen Square in Beijing. [ read more . . . ] Search the web for Chaohua Wang: Google · Yahoo! · AltaVista · Wikipedia In the LRB archiveDiary: Remembering Tiananmen · 5 July 2007 |
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