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Tiananmen Exiles-Voices of the Struggle for Democracy in China

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ROWENA XIAOQING HE 06.25.14

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Wall Street Journal: Tiananmen Amnesia and Tiananmen Exiles

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Posted on May 15, 2014 by Maura Cunningham

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He coverNow up at the Wall Street Journal’s China Real Time Report blog, my new column on Rowena Xiaoqing He’s recent book, Tiananmen Exiles:

In “Tiananmen Exiles,” Ms. He interviews Shen Tong and Wang Dan, both important figures in the Beijing protest movement, as well as Yi Danxuan, who was a student leader in Guangzhou. All three live overseas (only Mr. Shen has been able to visit China for business, on the condition that he refrain from political activity), and all have been prominent members of the Tiananmen exile community. Wang Dan obtained a Ph.D. in Chinese history from Harvard and now teaches in Taiwan, while Shen Tong founded a software company and Yi Danxuan has worked in journalism and business. Both Mr. Shen and Mr. Yi live in the United States.

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Tiananmen Exiles:Voices of the Struggle for Democracy in China Palgrave Studies in Oral History

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Tiananmen Exiles:Voices of the Struggle for Democracy in China Palgrave Studies in Oral History

 

9781137438317

Rowena Xiaoqing He and Foreword By Perry Link

Palgrave Macmillan, April 2014

ISBN: 978-1-137-43831-7, ISBN10: 1-137-43831-2,

6.000 x 9.250 inches, 240 pages,
In the spring of 1989, millions of citizens across China took to the streets in a nationwide uprising against government corruption and authoritarian rule. What began with widespread hope for political reform ended with the People’s Liberation Army firing on unarmed citizens in the capital city of Beijing, and those leaders who survived the crackdown became wanted criminals overnight. Among the witnesses to this unprecedented popular movement was Rowena Xiaoqing He, who would later join former student leaders and other exiles in North America, where she has worked tirelessly for over a decade to keep the memory of the Tiananmen Movement alive.

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