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(China -Tienanmen Square) Chai Ling Describes - Peking Massacre
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Tienanmen Square - Democracy Movement Crackdown June 1989
When Badiucao (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badiucao) was a student at university in Shanghai, the city where he was born and raised, he and some friends settled down one evening to watch a pirated Taiwanese drama they had downloaded. But the video also contained something else, spliced into the middle of their movie, about half way through, it just abruptly started playing the documentary "The Gate of Heavenly Peace", a documentary on the Tienanmen Massacre. It shook their worlds, as they had never heard of the events, and the documentary's impacts on them were irrevocable. It propelled Badiucao into a life in art where he wanted to spotlight the truth and to unveil the Chinese administration that had covered up their horrors so effectively. Keep in mind, these events happened when he was still just a child, but it happened within his lifetime, not centuries prior, but it had already been erased from the contemporary culture of those growing up.
We now live in a digital day and age where it can be easier to constrain and edit the historical narrative, distorting reality for millions. As newspapers and printed media continue to vanish, the natural enduring legacy of paper receipts that document arc of human experience are disappearing and only efforts like the folks at the Internet Archive and their peers keep the dynamic records of recent history alive.
Here are two extremely scarce printed interviews with people close to the events, just after the crackdown on the Chinese democracy movement by the CCP. These two "paper reciepts" keep the truth, loss and intention of the protesters alive, unedited.
Chai Ling Describes Tienanmen Square Massacre, Kwang Hwa Publishing Co, Taiwan, June 1989
Here, the testimony of one of the student leaders of the democracy movement, just days after the violent suppression by the government. She had been elected through student commitees and escaped after the crackdown, making it out of Beijing to Hong Kong and then later on to the U.S. where she studied at Princeton. She would be nominated for the Noble Peace prize in 1990. This is a very rare 6 page pamphlet that was meant to give a first person update.
In our search for this rarity, we only find one in an Australian library and no other institutions. Condition is very good, near excellent. Overall size is approximately 9 x 4 (inches)
The Peking Massacre Reactions of the ROC- Dr. Shaw Yu-ming Fives ROC Position in NBC, NHK Interviews., Tien-sen-hung Printing Co., July 1989
He was an authority on Chinese history, professor and politician in Taiwan. And he was constantly reviewing the growing situation in Beijing, and the horrible fallout in early June. Here, just under a month after the crackdown, he talks about what it means, and what should transpire. Its twenty one pages of a focused interview. Very scarce, with no instances being found in institutional holdings.
Condition is very good, near excellent. Overall size is approximately 9 x 4 (inches)