The great Tiananmen taboo

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/02/tiananmen-square-protests-1989-china

It is 20 years since students and lecturers filled Tiananmen Square, demanding democracy, only to be crushed by tanks and fired on by the Chinese army. Banned novelist Ma Jian, who was there at the protests, returned to Beijing to find a country desperate to erase all memories of the thousands of innocent lives lost.

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Created by serpentinite on 02 June 2009

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A sad reflection on Ma Jian's links with Tiananmen Square. Beautifully written and heart wrenching.

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