Woman Who Could Not Forget (2011) - Plot & Excerpts
For Shau-Jin and myself, both born in China, the events really hit home. We were riveted to the television for weeks. When the student protests began, I was still at UC San Diego, working in Professor Milton Saier’s lab with a couple of students from mainland China. The students and I talked constantly about the news from China and couldn’t contain our excitement. We all thought that our homeland was inexorably heading down a democratic path. In addition to students, we saw older workers and intellectuals demonstrating in the streets of Beijing and in Tiananmen Square. Hundreds of students went on hunger strikes to demand that the Chinese government reform, guarantee freedom of speech, and crack down on corruption. The students also erected a Goddess of Democracy statue, which looked remarkably similar to our own Lady Liberty in New York Harbor. Tears of joy welled up in my eyes. In late May, Iris called to tell us she had reached Chicago and was living in a dorm room of Mundelein College.
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