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Tiananmen Uprising Remembered Wednesday Night at Bayside Center
A Chinese man arrested for writing poetry during the uprising will speak at the event.
Ocean City is hosting an event commemorating the 25th anniversary of the uprising at Tiananmen Square this week.
Huaguang Zhao, a renowned poet/calligrapher and Tiananmen veteran, will make a presentation at The Bayside Center Wednesday night, 7:30 p.m.
Zhao will bring in several other speakers who are also survivors of the massacre.
He recently spoke about the massacre for the first time in public when he and Zhaohui Rui spoke to Voice of America Mandarin Service’s weekly Pro & Con TV show.
Wednesday marks the 25th anniversary of the 1989 uprising, in which the Communist Party used its military to clear pro-Democracy activists from Tiananmen Square in Beijing. The event is famous for a college student standing in the path of a line of tanks in a scene broadcast around the world.
Zhao and Rui were both college students at the time. Zhao was arrested for writing poetry at the time, and now works as an activist in New York, according to the report.
The Bayside Center is located at 520 Bay Avenue.
For more on the event, visit Amnesty International of Cape May County's Facebook page.
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