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Even though the protestors were marching peacefully, riot police set upon them with truncheons and fists, an episode…
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Gardner Bovingdon • The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land
Writing from his hiding place in the basement of a U.S. embassy building in Beijing, astrophysicist Fang Lizhi, one of China’s preeminent dissidents, baldly stated that the multiplicity of Tiananmen literature heralded “the failure of the ‘Technique of Forgetting History,’ which has been an important device of rule by the Chinese Communists.” Facts
... See moreLouisa Lim • The People's Republic of Amnesia
from Nature’s perspective, their use was indistinguishable from the Cultural Revolution, and equally destructive to our world. If this was so, then how many other acts of humankind that had seemed normal or even righteous were, in reality, evil?
Liu, Cixin • The Three-Body Problem
The city-state has the United States’ largest population of foster youth. The first time we spoke, Vega recited grim statistics: foster youth were twice as likely to experience PTSD as war veterans.
Rosecrans Baldwin • Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles
My family and I had no idea what was happening in the outside world, but we were able to guess what shape other parts of the country were in from looking at the changes around us. At school, the classrooms weren’t even half-full. Our homeroom teacher was nowhere to be seen, and the number of teachers who did stick around dropped to just four or fiv
... See moreSok-yong Hwang • Princess Bari
Two Uyghurs were killed and several hundred…
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Gardner Bovingdon • The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land
The roll call took place. The Lagerkommandant announced that the Buchenwald camp would be liquidated. Ten blocks of inmates would be evacuated every day. From that moment on, there was no further distribution of bread and soup. And the evacuation began. Every day…
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