Yu Hua on June 4

A couple posts ago I linked to a series of NPR reports, one of which featured contemporary Chinese novelist Yu Hua. Yu shares his recollections of May-June 1989 in a New York Times op-ed piece on May 30. I remember those days vividly, if only from memories of the 24-hour live CNN coverage I watched while attending university in Provo. At the time I had been hired by Continental Grain to work for a year as a tutor for the children of an American businessman in a large provincial Chinese city. Everything was on hold due to the May-June activities in Beijing, however. I ended up going over in late August, one of the first foreigners back into China after the events of June 4. It was a very interesting time to be in China. Many of my experiences are better shared personally than written about online.