China

An Ode to China’s Future: Former Reform Leader Wang Youcai Speaks

Final Musings

The feeling of home leaves a sense of sentimentality lingering in one’s memory. This is how I felt when returning to my hometown in New York and completing my Tiananmen travels there.

There is also the added complexity of familial obligations which I have had to tend to during…

From Seven-Point Petition to Immigration Law: Activist Li Jinjin Today

A Democracy Dream from the South: Interviewing Chen Pokong

Hidden in a Harvard Library is a Vast Collection of Tiananmen’s History

To read about and look at photos of a movement online gauges personal curiosity. To see the artefacts in person however, arouses a feeling of shock and personal revelation.

Mobilizing the Millennial Generation: Former Tiananmen leader Wang Dan speaks out

Finding Tiananmen: Day 3 Musings

This morning, I had my meeting with Wang Dan. To be able to meet one of the key leaders of the 1989…

Tiananmen Revisited: My Interview with Exiled Political Reformer Yang Jianli

28 years after June 4, a…

Finding Tiananmen: Day 1 Musings

6am — Today’s the day. I’m thinking about the first exile I’ll be meeting with this afternoon and…