Andréa Worden, a former teaching fellow from the U.S., recalls the atmosphere in Changsha, Hunan Province during the fateful spring of 1989 and its aftermath. Originally published in China Rights Forum, Issue No. 2, 2004 https://www.hrichina.org/en/content/3738 Fifteen years ago this spring, an estimated one hundred million people took part in pro-democracy protests that erupted in … Continue reading Changsha, 1989
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Changsha 1989: Of Tennis, Transcendence and Tiananmen
Protest outside the Hunan provincial government compound in Changsha, 18 May 1989 (Photo credit: Andréa Worden) This essay originally appeared in Cha: An Asian Literary Journal (Issue 44, June/July 2019) for the feature "Tiananmen Thirty Years On." https://www.asiancha.com/wp/article/andrea-worden/ by Andréa Worden As my two-year teaching fellowship with the Yale-China Association in Changsha was winding down in the … Continue reading Changsha 1989: Of Tennis, Transcendence and Tiananmen
Beyond Beijing: 1989 in Changsha
This interview originally appeared on the website of Sinopsis, available here: https://sinopsis.cz/en/beyond-beijing-1989-in-changsha/ Thirty years ago, the CCP’s army massacred peaceful demonstrators on Tian’anmen square, putting an end to a nationwide protest movement. In this interview, Andréa Worden remembers 1989 as she experienced it in Changsha and Beijing. You were in China during the spring of 1989, why … Continue reading Beyond Beijing: 1989 in Changsha
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)
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