2. Asian American History and Culture :Last Kiss in Tiananmen Square
The above literary work is edited by Scott Wong, David Palumbo, Cathy Schlund and Linda Trinh. Baiyun a lead character in the novel joins the pro-democracy movements to vent out frustrations. Baiyun hails from a struggling family but worked hard to secure a place at the prestigious Beijing University. We are thus presented with Tiananmen Square as a place where society’s frustrations are heard and treated with the seriousness they deserve. Tiananmen Square is further shown as marking a damaging period in Chinese history. In the book, the authors present the little known aspirations of frustrated Chinese. Lisa Zhang is used as representative character who is nursing an ambition to study in the United States so as to earn a gateway to a better life. Tiananmen Square is projected as the final let out of a frustrated society in China.
Tiananmen Square massacre is used to unearth how university settings are
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The author documents the dismissed university teaching staff living in dilapidated conditions with the rest of the populace giving them a wide berth. The close-knit nature of Chinese communities implies that the fate of the surviving active participants of the 1989 protest is sealed. It seems to several of the survivors of Tiananmen Square protests; the Square is the anti-climax of their hopes for change. The Square has ruined their once illustrious life. They are seen as society’s misnomers or residues. Perhaps to paraphrase the author, they lived in shaded blocks of four storey buildings and gazed about. The place was dotted with old ladies basking in the sun, a few chickens in stairwell cages and an angry hiss of frying punctuated the environment. The author’s diction underscores desolation and isolation meted on the architects of the 1989 protests and they dare not demand for empathy from the