June 4th Massacre Ad
Reuters reports that an ad saluting the mothers of the June 4 天安门广场 (Tian1an1men2 Guang3chang3, Tiananmen Square) massacre got published in the Chengdu Evening News! The person who placed it also tried other newspapers, and the clerks who handled the requests didn’t know what June 4 referred to. The other clerks called a supervisor. This clerk called the customer, and got told it was a mining accident, and it went through! I would love to have a copy, to see it myself.
I remember Li, one of my father’s business partners, telling me about what happened. She was there as a student, and spent the next two weeks in the countryside hiding. It’s amazing when you think about it, how much the world has changed since then. Now she’s an overseas Chinese. She changed her citizenship, so now she has what she was fighting for then. But many millions don’t.
I also remember speaking with a good friend of mine, whose name I will not type out on the vauge chance that I could get them in trouble. We were speaking about the massacre (good friend with open heart indeed, as you can see), and I mentioned the iconic picture seen all around the world except China itself, of the lone man standing in front of the tank holding up his hand in a ’stop’ sign. My friend looked confused, and I realized they hadn’t seen it, they hadn’t seen any pictures or footage of something that happened 30 minutes from their home.
But the grip of the Party will corrode, sooner or later. There were good reasons to be so suspicious of foreigners. My friend now knows that there is footage that was seen worldwide, they know there are pictures, and they know from my face and my words that everyone abroad knows. They know there is such a thing as “the” picture from 天安门广场 (Tian1an1men2 Guang3chang3, Tiananmen Square). I don’t know how far that knowledge might spread, but some young people do know. I told one myself. Looking around on campus, there are a lot of overseas Chinese here. Some of them will see the footage, and some of them will go back. The knowledge and memory will be preserved here, until China is ready.
The authorities are still very jumpy about gatherings on 天安门广场 (Tian1an1men2 Guang3chang3, Tiananmen Square), especially after the Falun Gong incidents. A police van followed me around when I was rollerblading on the square once, but that was in June. I’m not sure how someone rollerblading might be a threat, but it’s apparently not out of the question.
It’s so unfair. I wish my friend had the same freedoms and opportunities as I do. They deserve better. They are not a cog in a machine, they are a person. They are not some cretin that has to beg for a visa or a potential sacrifice for the glory of some leader or party or country. They are a person with their own personal sorrows and joys, their special smile, and their own hopes and wishes. I wish they could look at anything they like, discuss anything they like and had more chances for a better life than they do. There is no reason why they couldn’t, and they shouldn’t have to leave their country to get it. I hope we will meet again when China is completely open and rich and look back and say “Wow, things changed since we first met. Remember?”
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