A Sunday with a Former Student Leader

"[The government of Beijing] would like to promote the so-called 'Beijing Doctrine': For the sake of economic improvement, everything can be done, even killing people ... [such doctrine shows that] the Tienanmen Massacre is still going on, only in different ways: it was the students' life being taken physically in 1989, but it is the mind of the world being poisoned spiritually today." --Wang Dan, in the press conference in Toronto, May 31, 2009

It's so rare to meet a great mind for even one minute in your whole life, but Sunday May 31 I've got a chance to meet Wang Dan (王丹) for whole day. Wang was one of the student leaders during the democratic movement in 1989, which ended with a tragedy: the Chinese government crashed it with tanks and soldiers with assault rifles (The Red Cross of China once mentioned 2,900 dead, though the number had been retracted sometimes later). Today, Wang has a doctoral degree on History from Harvard University, and (as of June 2009) finding the next research topic in another university.

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