Check out Blog for China for a bunch of stuff about the Tiananmen Massacre from some Chinese people’s point of view.
Here’s a little commemoration of Six Four by a Chinese Blogger.
CDT talks about how Mourning is banned.
There was this little memoir that I found in the UC Berkeley library written by a Peking University professor about the movement. In the end, he asked for the people to not forget what happened.
At Microsoft at least, all is forgotten or pushed to the back of their minds. There’s more important things to think about. Like rushing to finish their Bug Bash before their deadline or organizing meetings for the senior management.
I guess I’ll just end this post with my favorite quote:
“Time flows eternally on: the streets are peaceful again, for a few lives count for nothing in China… …The history of mankind’s battle forward through bloodshed is like the formation of coal, where a great deal of wood is needed to produce a small amount of coal. But demonstrations do not serve any purpose, especially unarmed ones” – Lu Xun writing about the death of student protesters during the early 20th century.
