China on My Mind: Ian Hacking on the 1989 Demonstrations

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Date of this Version

2-25-2008

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Article

Citation

February 25, 2008 in The China Beat http://www.thechinabeat.org/

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Copyright February 25, 2008. Used by permission.

Abstract

In their coverage of the 1989 student demonstrations, foreign and domestic media focused almost exclusively on the demonstrations in Beijing. However, sympathetic students and workers protested and marched across China in May and June 1989, and there has been little coverage or scholarship written about the shape and scope of those events. In the spring and early summer of 1989, professor and philosopher Ian Hacking was teaching in Wuhan and Lanzhou. In this installation of the audio feature, “China on My Mind,” China Beat contributor Tom Mullaney chats with Hacking about what he saw during this critical moment in Chinese history. (Users who have trouble with the interface can follow this linkdirectly to the audio file at imeem.)