04 June 2009

Things Were Different Here 20 Years Ago


An article on the op-ed page of the Wall Street Journal reminded me of my trip to China a couple of years ago. This is what I saw on Tiananmen Square. That is Mao's tomb in the background and kite flyers in the foreground. 20 years ago this morning the People's Army was dealing in their usual way with dissidents without guns. Every city and town we visited in 2007 had a large, plain grayish-white building right in the center, clearly the residence of authority in that place.

By the way, if you are interested, you can tell if Mao's mausoleum is open by the long line of viewers patiently waiting to see Stuffed Mao.

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