Inconvenient Memories
A Personal Account
of the Tiananmen Square Incident
and the China Before and After
by Anna Wang
Purple Pegasus
Biographies & Memoirs ,
History
Pub Date 15 May 2019
I am reviewing a copy of Inconvenient Memories: A Personal Account of the Tianamen Square Incident through Purple Peagasus and Netgalley:
I was not quite twelve when the events of Tiananmen square took place, I'd watch them unfold on the news programs, probably not thinkinking much of it, because it seemed like a world away from my home in Northern California, but as I grew older I started to get a better idea that they were fighting for something important, something that we took for granted.
In 1989 Anna Wang was coming of age amidst the Tianamen Square Protests. She was one of the lucky ones because she was working for Cannon, at the time, everyday she would have to travel between her Grandmothers commune style apartment, that was falling apart, to an extravagant office just steps from Tianamen square. Traveling Bejing's buses that were always overcrowded where the social and economic equalities were laid out before her eyes.
Anna Wang was sent to Tianamen square on a daily basis because her Japanese boss worried how these protests would effect his business, she would take pictures so her boss could analyze the situation in Tianamen square.
Told from the perspective of a woman from China'emerging middle class Inconvenient Memories is an eye opening story of the events that took place in Tianamen Square in 1989.
I give Inconvenient Memories five out of five stars!
Happy Reading!
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