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A few weeks after my interview with Shen Tong, I was once again in New York City. This time I was not in Manhattan, but in Queens. Walking among the crowd I heard the sounds of different Chinese dialects, saw innumerable signs marking Chinese stores, and smelled the aromas wafting from Chinese restaurants. This New York street could have been in China—but somehow, similar smells, sights, tastes, and sounds are not enough to give us the feeling of being home. Instead, they reinforce our sense of homesickness. This is especially true for the person I was meeting that day: Wang Dan.
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Wang Dan, Wang Dan yu zhong huiyilu [Prison Memoirs] (Taibei: Xin xinwen wenhua shiye gufen youxian gongsi, 1997), p. 243. My translation.
Wang Lingyun, Suiyue cangcang [During Those Dark Years] (Hong Kong: Mingbao chubanshe youxian gongsi, 1999 ). My translation.
Ya Yi, Liuwangzhe fangtanlu [Interviews with Exiles] (Hong Kong: Xiafeier chu-ban youxian gongsi, 2005 ). My translation.
Wang DanWang Dan huiyilu: Cong liusi dao liuwang [Wang Dan Memoir: From June 4 to Exile] (Taibei: Shibao wenhua chuban, 2012), p. 052. My translation.
Jonathan Unger, ed., The Pro-democracy Protests in China: Reports from the Provinces ( Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1991 ), p. 15.
Geremie Barmé, In the Red: On Contemporary Chinese Culture ( New York: Columbia University Press, 1999 ), p. 42.
Craig J. Calhoun, Neither Gods nor Emperors: Students and the Struggle for Democracy in China ( Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994 ), p. 165.
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He, R.X. (2014). Living Somewhere Else: Wang Dan. In: Tiananmen Exiles. Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137438324_6
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