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Tiananmen in
History and Memory
A Conference
Organized by Harvard College Students to Commemorate the 25th
Anniversary of the Tiananmen Movement
April 26,
2014, Saturday, 9am-6pm
Fong
Auditorium, Boylston Hall, Harvard Yard
Cross-generational
Dialogue Panels with
Former Beijing Bureau Chiefs for the Wall Street Journal, the
Washington Post, and Newsweek, former Wall Street Journal
Asia op-ed editor, Professor Wu Guoguang, speechwriter for former
premier Zhao Ziyang, survivor Fang Zheng, whose legs were crushed when a
tank drove over him from behind while he was withdrawing from Tiananmen Square
on June 4, and other 1989 student leaders and survivors.
Student Paper Panels with
Professors
William Kirby, Mark Elliott, Martin Whyte, Arthur Waldron, Paul Cohen, Pei
Minxin, Victor Falkenheim, Roderick
MacFarquhar
Student
Performance directed by
Bex Kwan, Class 2014, with
Violinist Lynn
Chang, Class 75, who played at the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize ceremony for Liu
Xiaobo
Please visit
our website for program, participant bios, paper abstracts, and travel
information.
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Who We
Are
This year
marks the 25th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Movement. In spring 1989,
millions of Chinese took to the streets calling for political reform. The
nationwide movement ended on June 4 with the People’s Liberation Army firing
on unarmed civilians in the capital city of Beijing. Tiananmen remains a
politically taboo topic in China today.
We
are a group of students at Harvard College hailing from different regions of
the world and embodying a wide range of ethnic and cultural backgrounds and
perspectives. We were not yet born in 1989 but were brought together by a
seminar “Rebels with a Cause: Tiananmen in History and Memory” taught by Dr.
Rowena He. During our time together, we studied the primary source
materials of the Tiananmen Movement, heard personal accounts of student
participants themselves, and explored the Tiananmen archives of the
Harvard–Yenching Library. We imagined ourselves into the minds of the
authorities and civilians, touched the protesters’ blood-stained clothes, and
re-enacted the night of June 3rd, trying to put ourselves in the shoes of the
protesters who then were around the same age as we are now. We debated and
questioned everything along the way. Our
learning experience shows that with free access to information and free
inquiry, we as young people can indeed come to our own understanding of
historical truth.
There
have been hundreds of Tiananmen events in the past 24 years all over the
world, but we are excited that we as undergraduate students are putting
together a conference for the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen
Movement. Our conference will be held on April 26, a
historically important date in 1989 when the first official judgment of the
movement was printed in the lead editorial of the Party’s newspaper, the
People’s Daily, designating the student demonstrations as premeditated and
organized turmoil with anti-Party and anti-socialist motives.
The conference
will include student presentation panels with faculty members serving as
chairs, and cross-generational conversations among students and journalists
who covered 1989, student participants and survivors of 1989, and scholars who
study the topic. For us college students who were not born in 1989, Tiananmen
is history; for the invited speakers, Tiananmen is memory.
It
is our hope that through this conference we may give a voice to those who were
silenced and that this voice will help keep the memory of June 4
alive. Join us!
2014 Tiananmen
Conference Student Planning Committee
天安门运动的历史与记忆
哈佛本科生组织会议纪念天安门运动二十五周年
2014年4月26日，上午9点到下午6点
Boylston Hall,
哈佛园
今年是天安门运动25周年。在1989年春天，
我们是一群哈佛大学的本科生，来自世界各地，
在过去的24年中，在世界各地召开有关天安门的会议已有数百次，
在这次会议上将有由教授们主持的学生论文宣读，还有我们这些19
我们邀请的讲演人包括当年华尔街日报、华盛顿邮报、
会议还会有学生自编自演的节目，曾为刘晓波获诺贝尔和平奖在20
我们希望我们的会议能够让大家听到那些被沉默的声音，
会议学生组织者
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