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Jeremy Goldkorn of Danwei speaks to Zhang Lijia, journalist and author of the new book Socialism is Great. Zhang worked as a teenager in a Nanjing factory which produced missiles designed to reach North America, participated in the Tiananmen Square protests and subsequently became a journalist.
To read a sample chapter of the book, click here.
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wow a very interesting and fascinating story.
Very interesting and fascinating story.
It's not a fact that Ms. Zhang Lijia participated in the Tiananmen Square protests.
She made her first ever visit to Beijing in 1990 and met her British ex-husband by then.
Her talant doesnt need help from Tiananmen Square to shine.
From www.lijiazhang.com:
Q U O T E
On a fine summer day in 1988 inside the Forbidden City, I bumped into a blue-eyed Oxford student at an ice-cream queue inside the Forbidden City.
U N Q U O T E
Has the Forbidden City suddenly & unexpectedly changed location?
To pirx,
Though www.lijiazhang.com doesn't work, I still thank you for the precious adolescent time spent in correcting my mistake. While cursing my short memory span, I have to admit youth is truth. I promise I’ll never err again, lol!
But what I was driving at was: she was NOT at Tainanmen Square Protest in Beijing on June 1989 as the a.m report stated or as you thought.
As a friend of Zhang Lijia and her ex-husband, both of whom interviewed me before, I am quite keen to know, if I was wrongly informed about her experience in 1989. It’s no tongue in cheek but a matter about her honesty. As an old dog who doesn't know new trick, could I ask you to do some more vigorous searching work to counter my argument again, or simply to prove I am not only an old dog but also an idiot as well?
Thanks in advance for your response which would be highly appreciated.
They interviewed you? Did she also write a book about assholes?
To EL JEFE,
She is good at writing book about assholes and bitch and idiot and moron and EL JEFE.
@estman
Oh, yes, your colleagues at the State Information office seem to be blocking www.lijiazhang.com May be, you want to drop in next door and talk to them.
eastman said
Q U O T E
She made her first ever visit to Beijing in 1990
U N Q U O T E
All I tried to point out, that you may have been wrong.
She may or may not have been at Tiananmen for the demonstrations, I did not say anything about that, it is only what you try to imply.
A futile attempt applying party-school dialectics.