Youth in Revolt: Shu Haolun's "No. 89 Shimin Road"
A student symposium at Harvard entitled “Tiananmen In History And Memory” will be held at Harvard later this week. Following the success of the first symposium, which was held last year, the students describe the event as follows:
Like our forerunners from 2011, we were not yet born in 1989 but were brought together by a freshman seminar and Chinese History seminar, “Rebels with a Cause: Tiananmen in History and Memory” taught by Dr. Rowena He. During our short time together, we studied the primary source materials of the Tiananmen Movement, heard personal accounts of student leaders 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.
