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  • Beijing spring July. 2006, Issue 158
     

    Brief of No.158:

    Seventeen years ago, in the spring of 1989, thousands of young people walk to the streets and shouted out the slogan of "Against corruption for democracy". Those unarmed students and civilians finally suffered the brutal suppression of hundreds of thousands of PLA troops. The great patriotic pro-democracy movement was terminated with an inhumane bloody incident. The Chinese government committed inexcusable antihuman crime by using the army to slaughter the students and civilians conducting a peaceful appeal.........

    Table of Contents
    Words from Editor in Chief
    03. / Hu Ping ...... A signal that can not be neglected

    Words from the President
    04. / Wang Dan ...... Glory and shame

    Cover Topic: Review of seventeen years June 4th
    06. / Tiananmen Mothers ...... Our belief and opinions
    10. / Chen Xiaoya (Beijing) ...... Tracing the two suspense in the June 4th incident
    15. / Wang Dan ...... Telling the story of Israel
    16. / Chen Pokong ...... The aftermath of the June 4th Massacre
    18. / Xing Dong (Canada) ...... The June 4th in the eyes of young people
    20. / Yang Kuanxing (Beijing) ...... The 5th anniversary of June 4th"
    23. / Yu Saiming ...... Memorial activities for June 4th in the world

    Divine Land of China
    30. / Gong Shengli (Guangzhou) ...... Law, justice - the new deficiencies of the society
    36. / Xiao Weng (Hunan) ...... True and false "black killing team"

    Theoretical Probe
    39. / Hu Ping ...... Why only winners are recognized
    43. / Cao Weilu (Tianjin) ...... Government and newspaper
    47. / Liu Tongsu ...... Discussion on the disobedience of non-violence

    Wall of Democracy
    50. / Guo Yongfeng (Shenzhen) ...... Let the delegates of the citizens administer the society
    51. / Jiafei / Zhang Jing ...... Mourning for a volunteer worker of Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movement of China

    Study on the Cultural Revolution
    53. / Weise (Tibetan) ...... Suspense in the Cultural Revolution in Tibet
    61. / Zhu Changchao (Shanghai) ...... The painful lesson of the Cultural Revolution - superstition to individual
    65. / Zhu Zheng (Beijing) ...... The struggle against the rightists was an aborted Cultural Revolution

    Discussion Group of Culture
    75. / Min Qi (Beijing) ...... The helpless artist Ding Langfu
    76. / Jiang Ni (Beijing) ...... Pull out Yu Yua's tooth
    79. / Donghai Yixiao (Guangxi) ...... The core of the Confucian Culture

    Special Report: Berlin Conference
    81. The declaration of Global Conference in Support of the Democratization of China and Asia
    83. / Tian Mu (Germany) ...... Some notes of the Berlin Conference
    89. / Commentator of our magazine ...... A significant conference of the internationalization of the Chinese democracy movement
    92. / Announcement of Chinese Alliance for Democracy and Federation for a Democratic China
    93. / Secretary Section of China Social Democratic Party

    Reading
    99. / Shu Chong ...... From the leading class to the vulnerable group

    Garden of Literature & Art
    101. / Ma Yunnan (Henan) ...... A draft poem from prison
    102. / Lie Lei (Guangzhou) ...... Voice of the farmer workers

    Brief News
    103. / Brief News

    Readers, writers and editors
    106. / Selected letters from readers

     


    Members of Beijing Spring's Advisory Board

    Fang Lizhi, professor of physics at University of Arizona. As the former vice president of Chinese University of Science and Technology, he inspired the 1989's Chinese Democracy movement and then was forced to seek refuge in the American Embassy for about a year after the June 4 crackdown.

    Guo Luoji, a leading liberal theoretician who was driven out of Beijing by Former Chairman Deng Xiaoping because of his political opinion. In 1992, he sued the Chinese government for human rights abuses in a Federal Court of law. Now he is a visiting scholar at Harvard University.

    Smarlo Ma Smarlo Ma is pen name of Mr. Yi Ma. Joining the CommunistParty of China in 1937, he became Director of the Library of the Anti-Japanese Military and Political College in Yan-an in 1938. He formally left the Party in 1943. as a well known expert on the history of the Communist party of china, he has often been invited to present papers in international conferences of Asian specialists. He has published mora than 20 books.

    Perry Link, professor of East Asian Studies at Princeton University. He specializes in 20th-century Chinese literature and is very concerned with human rights condition in Mainland China.

    Liu Qing, Chairman of the Executive Committee of Human Rights in China. As a democracy promoter and a close ally of Wei Jingsheng, he had been jailed by Chinese government for almost ten years.

    Andrew Nathan, professor of Political Science and Director of East Asian Institute at Columbia University. His teaching and research interests include Chinese politics and foreign policy, the comparative study of political participation and political culture, and human rights. He has published numerous books and articles on China's politics.

    Situ Hua, president of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic and Democratic Movement in China. Mr. Situ is a member of the Hong Kong legislature and an important leader of the Democratic Party of Hong Kong.

    Su Shaozhi, chairman of Princeton China Initiative. Once served as the director of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, he is a leading liberal political theoretician in China.

    Su Xiaokang, a Chinese writer well known for his epic The River's Elegy, a critical television program about China's political and cultural evolution. As an active participator in the 1989 democracy movement, he was forced to leave China. Now he is a fellow of the Princeton China Initiative and publisher of the bi-monthly journal "The Democratic China".

    Yang Liyu, professor of East Asian Studies at Seton Hall University

    Yu Ying-shi, professor of history at Princeton University. Mr. Yu has been a leading critic on the tyranny of the Chinese communists after he left China in 1950. After the Chinese government crackdown on the Democracy Movement in 1989, he devoted himself into helping the fled Chinese activists to settle down in the U.S and setting up the Princeton China Initiative.


    Members of Beijing Spring's Editorial Board

    Yu Dahai, Publisher of Beijing Spring and assistant professor of economics at Tufts University. Graduated from Beijing University and received a Ph.D. degree from Princeton University, he served as Chief Editor of Beijing Spring from June 1993 to June 1996 and then as President from June 1996 to September 2002. He is founding president of the Chinese Economists Society and former president of the Chinese Alliance for Democracy and the China Spring magazine.

    Wang Dan, President of Beijing Spring since September 2002. As a student leader from Beijing University in the 1989's Democracy Movement, he was on the most wanted list of the Chinese government after the June 4 crackdown. After being imprisoned for political reasons from July 1989 to February 1993 and again from May 1995 to April 1998, he came to the United States ad is now a doctoral student in Harvard University.

    Hu Ping, Chief Editor of Beijing Spring since 1996 and a regular commentator for Radio Free Asia. Received a Master's degree in philosophy from Beijing University and studied at Harvard University, he was once the Chief Writer of Beijing Spring from June 1993 to June 1996. He is former president of the Chinese Alliance for Democracy and the China Spring magazine.

    Chen Kuide, fellow of Princeton China Initiative and program host for Radio Free Asia. As once the Chief Editor of Shanghai's Thinker magazine, he actively took part in the 1989 democracy movement. He later received a Ph.D. degree in philosophy from Fudan University.

    Zheng Yi, member of the Princeton China initiative and a famous political critic. He once wrote articles to expose the cannibalism in Guangxi during the Great Cultural Revolution in China. As an important leader of the 1989 democracy movement, he was forced to leave China in 1992.

    Xue Wei, Manager of Beijing Spring since 1993. He was imprisoned in Sichuan for ten years for "counter-revolutionary activities" in the 1970's. He was among the founding members of the Chinese Alliance for Democracy and the China Spring magazine and has always served as a leader in promoting Chinese Democracy Movement dating back 1982.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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