Proceeding with Life
The man is outspoken. “I love China,” he tells me, “but
government is shit.”
Because I am an outsider, people say things to me they do
not say to others.
My friend and his wife are now in their 40’s. As I get to
know them, I learn they were at the 1989 student protest on Tiananmen Square
which ended with tanks rolling in. The Chinese
government denies that this happened.
“When the protest began, we were happy,” says the woman. They
sat on the square and sang songs. People
made speeches. It was Woodstock with political overtones minus the drugs. But a few days later, there was word that trouble
was coming. My friends elected to leave
and survived.
Today, they are teachers.
The man belongs to the Communist Party, though he hates the system. They
have made a life in this country.
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