June 21, 2008
Translation: Article from Latest 炎黄春秋 (Yanhuang Chunqiu)
Filed under : Translation
A Personal History of the Beginning of the Red Guards
By Liu Jin
Yanhuang Chunqiu
Issue 5, 2008
Translation by Anton Lee Wishik II
The Red Guards first originated at the affiliated middle school of Beijing Qinghua University. At that time, I was the president of the work association of the school. I saw with my own eyes the beginning [...]
June 21, 2008
Ma Jian in NYT
Filed under : Analysis
On June 4th, the NYT printed an editorial by Ma Jian （马建）relating the government response to the Sichuan earthquake to the Tiananmen Square Incident. Ma’s works have been banned in China although I attended a lecture he was able to give in Shanghai in 2006. In Red Dust, Ma’s poetic autobiography of his wanderings across [...]
