June 4, 1989

Yesterday was June 4. It reminds me the big events in 1989 - Tiananman Square Incident. Last week, one of our faculty members talked about her own experience and life after June 4, 1989 in our pro-seminar class. She was a graudate student, applying for graduate studies in the US. She described how hard to obtain her visa and passport to come over US after the Incident. She became emotional when she mentioned the Incident. It seems that the Incident is still haunting many Chinese, especially the academia world. We were all silent and did not know how to react in the classroom. I personally feel very sorry for her.

The Tiananman Square Incident surely changed a lot of people's life in China - not only the student leaders, the participants, but also the general public in Beijing. I remember that I watched a special on TV.The reporter went to Beiing University and interviewed the current students. I am not surprised that most of them avoided to answer the question, "Do you know what happened on June 4, 1989?" - some people pretended that they have no idea what happend, some of them just shaked their heads and walked away.

It was over twenty years since the Incident occurred. Time passed and the Beijing people simply do not want to mention it. They just want to move on their lives in a simple way, I guess.