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May 27, 2004

Tiananmen was 15 years ago

I remember very clearly that students from Qinghua University were marching in the front, carrying a huge banner. Several old professors in white hair were also part of the march. What caught my particular attention was that one of them was carrying a placard bearing the words: "We have kneeled down too long and are getting up to stretch our legs!"

As a research scholar of Chinese history I understood the implied meaning of the slogan on the placard.

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Posted by thdyck on May 27, 2004

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