Remembering June 4 - Perry Link & Paul Pickowicz

About this episode

The episode features a conversation between Perry Link and Paul Pickowicz about the significance and memory of June 4th, 1989.

The 21st Century China Center is premiering a new web series: "China Throughlines" - featuring UC San Diego’s China historians in conversation with their colleagues on the echos and connectedness of China’s storied past to the twenty-first century. In this audo excerpt from the pilot episode, Paul Pickowicz interviews Perry Link, esteemed cross-disciplinary China scholar and translator of the Tiananmen Papers. The memory of the tragic and pivotal date of June 4th 1989 or simply 六四, is still the subject of intense debate, censorship, and protest - especially in Hong Kong. Web series host: Paul Pickowicz, UC San Diego Editor: Samuel Tsoi, UC San Diego Music: Dave Liang/Shanghai Restoration Project

People in this episode

Guests: Perry Link, Paul Pickowicz

Topics covered

• June 4
• Tiananmen Square
• China history
• censorship
• protest

Keywords

• China Throughlines
• cross-disciplinary
• historian
• Hong Kong

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: China Throughlines, the Tiananmen Papers

Places: China, Hong Kong

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