Student Symposium - Tiananmen 1989: The Protests and Massacre in Beijing

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Wednesday, June 7, 2023
12:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Rolfe Hall 3108

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As a part of class Chinese 159 - Culture and Society in China, undergraduate students will be presenting four presentations about the Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing during 1989.

Monitor: Chaohua Wang
Faculty Commentator: Ching Kwan Lee, UCLA Sociology 

The New Age of Enlightenment
Rachel Liu, Hanfei Lin, and Sey Yang

Hope Lost After Tiananmen: A High School Student in 1989
Courtney Lee, Kayla Wang, and Xiaolian Zheng

Collective Memory versus Collective Amnesia
Eden Zafran and Leo Roberts

Massacres and Memories: Tiananmen and Gwangju Comparison
Maddison Han, Hayley Hithe, and Hyun Kyu Lee