Last night’s Catalyst was in my opinion far from sensational – in fact the excited prepublicity may have done it a disservice. Over the past decade, there has been an alarming surge in large, uncontrollable fires across the world. We live in a time when mega-fires are reshaping landscapes in ways unprecedented in human history. […]
Noted this morning the Sydney Morning Herald: That is 郭健 Guo Jian (b.1962) who was a panellist on April’s QandA live from Shanghai. See also the ABC page Hong Kong the focal point of Chinese dissent ahead of Tiananmen Square anniversary and the China Daily Mail post Twenty-five years later, Tiananmen Square no less taboo […]
One year later I was teaching people who were actually there A year later I spoke to one of those bike riders who ferried people to hospital…. Yes, it REALLY happened! Yes, people died. A former member of the Beijing Ballet told me — almost the first English she spoke to me: “Tiananmen. I was […]
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