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A discussion of Tiananmen Square
with Chai Ling and James Lilley on Jun 4, 1996
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with Chai Ling and James Lilley on Jun 4, 1996
Chai Ling was one of the leaders in the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. In April of 1989, Chai joined fellow students who were staging a sit-in protest at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, objecting to the government’s lack of response to their demands for more freedom. “We wanted to get the Chinese government to respect the constitution,” she explained in a May 1994 discussion at the John Fairbank Center at Harvard University, as reported in ?Current History? magazine.
After the government crack down, Chai went into hiding and later fled with her husband to France in search of political asylum. In 1990, Chai moved to the United States to earn a master’s degree in international relations at Princeton University. She now works as a computer consultant, continuing to speak on behalf of the struggle to liberate China.
