![]() ![]() ![]() Artist Ameziane’s noir-esque documentary style provides the ideal, dynamic complement to Zhang’s memories. ![]() Written with Asia-specialist journalist Adrien Gombeaud with a few augmentations (BBC’s Kate Adie gets a fictionalized stand-in), Zhang’s account is deftly translated by prodigious Edward Gauvin. “I’m not sure thirty years is enough to learn to live with survivor’s guilt,” he confesses, but his testimony remains essential, even dispelling misconceptions, including the iconic lone-man-in-front-of-tanks image – the photograph was taken June 5, hours after the bloodbath. At 26, he was older than his student counterparts he had “lived through the regime’s most violent years,” affording him a more cautious perspective.ĭuring the months that culminated in the Tiananmen Square Massacre on June 4, 1989, Zhang was an insider providing “coherent organization.” He escaped that night, settled in the first country that welcomed him, France, and became a university professor. Lun Zhang was there during “the largest spontaneous gathering in all of Chinese history,” surrounded by “the joys and smiles of Beijing’s youth” hoping to achieve freedom and democracy. ![]()
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