Tuesday, June 03, 2008

19 years ago today

I was in northeast China, listening to the shortwave radio and saying, "Oh shit."

3 comments:

  1. Tiananmen Square? YOu were there??? Can't believe it's been that long..... time really flies.

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  2. Time really does fly. I feel a little shocked it's been almost 20 years.

    I was there, in China, though not in Beijing when the shit went down. I was teaching in northeast China (Manchuria, really). I had been in Beijing just a couple of weeks earlier, riding a bike around the university district, dodging demonstrations and handing out resumes.

    Getting out of the country was rather fraught. Some of my students ended up in prison, and I wasn't sure if I would, too.

    But in the end I went back for another two years, in Beijing.

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