Tremendous piece and I remember those days well - though from the comfort of Pedder Street Hong Kong.
It's pretty long but have you ever read Graham Earnshaw's rather haunting but excellent memoir of his Tiananmen Square experience? You get several mentions (and I also remember so well Elizabeth Pisani coming back to Hong Kong quite badly shell-shocked by the whole experience.)
Thanks, Patrick. I hadn't seen that. Very interesting, and accurate, down to my attempts to get him to leave the Square. Yes, Pisani had a different perspective. Hong Kong ordered her to come home, because she was a woman. A very, very spunky woman she was!
Tremendous piece and I remember those days well - though from the comfort of Pedder Street Hong Kong.
It's pretty long but have you ever read Graham Earnshaw's rather haunting but excellent memoir of his Tiananmen Square experience? You get several mentions (and I also remember so well Elizabeth Pisani coming back to Hong Kong quite badly shell-shocked by the whole experience.)
https://earnshaw.com/writings/memoirs/tiananmen-story
Thanks, Patrick. I hadn't seen that. Very interesting, and accurate, down to my attempts to get him to leave the Square. Yes, Pisani had a different perspective. Hong Kong ordered her to come home, because she was a woman. A very, very spunky woman she was!