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Almost a Revolution by Shen Tong5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() Author tour.Ĭopyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. No one who cares about modern China should miss this document. Now living near Boston, Shen Tong saw firsthand what others have since confirmed: most of the thousands gunned down on the approaches to the square were not students but workers. The book's second half is a heartbreaking and electrifying journal of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre and the two months of protests leading up to it. He discovers Beethoven, Gandhi, Einstein and sexual love. His parents, reluctant members of the People's Liberation Army, are labeled "counterrevolutionary collaborators" for copying political poems. The first half of the book is straightforward, limpid narrative. ![]() Told with modesty and wisdom, written with former Washington Post reporter Yen, his remarkable autobiography is also a spiritual history of China's struggle for human rights. Shen Tong was a student leader in China's pro-democracy movement whose dreams were crushed in the Tiananmen Square massacre. ![]()
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