Ocupation: Writer
Life: b. August 18, 1953
Birthday: August 18
In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.
- Ma Jian
source: "The great Tiananmen taboo" by Ma Jian, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2009.
topic: Persistence, Squares, Two, Tiananmen Square