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It was a late winter afternoon at a Starbucks near Georgetown University in Washington, DC. I was meeting Yi Danxuan for our interview.
It is true that I am free here. But knowing that people who shared the same experience as I did are still being imprisoned for what they say and write, I can’t be happy here, either. I hope I can be a free man—to live a normal life with normal freedom in the land where I grew up.
—Yi Danxuan
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Notes
Orville Schell, Mandate of Heaven: The Legacy of Tiananmen Square and the Next Generation of China’s Leaders ( New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994 ), p. 216.
Wang Dan, Wang Dan huiyilu: Cong liusi dao liuwang [Wang Dan Memoir: From June 4 to Exile] (Taibei: Shibao wenhua chuban, 2012), pp. 106–108. My translation.
Shen, Tong, with Marianne Yen, Almost a Revolution, 2nd ed. ( Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998 ), p. 334.
Jonathan Unger, ed., The Pro-democracy Protests in China: Reports from the Provinces ( Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1991 ).
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Wang Dan, Wang Dan yu zhong huiyilu [Prison Memoirs] (Taibei: Xin xin wen-hua shiye gufen youxian gongsi, 1997 ), p. 107.
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He, R.X. (2014). On the Road: Yi Danxuan. In: Tiananmen Exiles. Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137438324_4
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