Monday, June 04, 2012

Tiananmen 23 years ago

In my grief I hear demons shriek;
I weep while wolves and jackals laugh.
Though tears I shed to mourn a hero,
With head raised high, I draw my sword.

- Wang Juntao -
The Tiananmen Poems 
(Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1979)

Wang Juntao, born in 1959, high student at the time, is a prominent Chinese dissident who was sentenced to thirteen years’ imprisonment following the 1989 Tiananmen Square uprising. He was released in 1994 and exiled to the United States.

check my post from 2008 » Tiananmen Massacre - 19 years later

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