As a young college grad in the late 1980s, I found myself teaching English in Changsha, Hunan, courtesy of the Yale-China Association. The first time I first heard David, an elegant professor who spoke impeccable English, talk in detail about his past was at the YCA Christmas Eve dinner in 1988. I knew that he … Continue reading Silent Night in Changsha: Christmas Eve (1988)
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Interview by China Law & Policy, Talking Tiananmen (July 7, 2019)
Elizabeth M. Lynch of China Law & Policy kindly interviewed me in 2019 for her project documenting first-hand, on-the-ground accounts of 1989 to mark the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre on June 4, 1989. https://chinalawandpolicy.com/remembering-tiananmen/talking-tiananmen/andrea-worden-in-changsha-teaching-english-at-hunan-medical-college-august-1988-june-1989/
100 Days Later: Keep the Memory Alive (September 12, 1989)
This is a brief essay I originally wrote on an old-school typewriter in late August 1989. Reformatting it here for the 21st century and resisting the temptation to edit my younger self. – AJW September 12, one hundred days after the Beijing massacre, has been proclaimed a day of mourning by the leaders of the … Continue reading 100 Days Later: Keep the Memory Alive (September 12, 1989)
Missing Lei Feng (audio)
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4sD2DKCM3nxlCsDpHz8CHG?si=L-zPFA1LSK20L-Fzy64E0g&nd=1 Author Andréa Worden reads her essay about her unexpected and convoluted encounters with Mao's poster boy-soldier Lei Feng, who devoted his short life to serving the people and the Party, originally published on the Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB) China Channel website in March 2018. https://open.spotify.com/embed-podcast/episode/4sD2DKCM3nxlCsDpHz8CHG?utm_source=generator
Beyond Beijing: What China’s 1989 Democracy Movement was like in Changsha
This interview [of Andréa Worden] by Filip Jirouš originally appeared on Sinopsis.cz as part of a series on the 30th anniversary of the Tian'anmen massacre. An edited version by Global Voices is published below as part of a content-sharing agreement. https://globalvoices.org/2019/06/11/beyond-beijing-what-chinas-1989-democracy-movement-was-like-in-changsha/ Interview with China expert Andréa Worden about a different Tian'anmen 1989 Changsha, May 19, 1989: Students on … Continue reading Beyond Beijing: What China’s 1989 Democracy Movement was like in Changsha
Despair and Hope: A Changsha Chronicle
My firsthand account of the events of 1989 in China as they unfolded in Changsha, Hunan, first appeared online on Long Bow Group's Tiananmen Square/ Gate of Heavenly Peace website: http://www.tsquare.tv/links/WORDEN.html Originally published in 1991 in The Pro-Democracy Protests in China: Reports from the Provinces, edited by Jonathan Unger (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 1991). … Continue reading Despair and Hope: A Changsha Chronicle
Gender and Inequality in Urban China Today (Conference agenda, Yale 1990)
Read pdf NB: During my first year of graduate school at Stanford, and about seven months after the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre, I was invited to participate in this symposium at Yale on gender inequality in China by one of my professors and mentors at Yale, Professor Deborah Davis. I spoke on women's participation in the … Continue reading Gender and Inequality in Urban China Today (Conference agenda, Yale 1990)
Basketball in Changsha (1988)
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Andréa J. Worden's Words 