The current issue of China Rights Forum, "Facing June Fourth," can be read in its entirety through the links below. For subscription information and access to back issues, please refer to the main China Rights Forum page.

Message from the Executive Director

Contributors

Memory and Responsibility

• The June Fourth that I Saw
  Gao Wenqian’s personal account of his experience during the events of June Fourth and how that day changed him.
• Bearing Witness to Suffering with the Pen of Freedom: A Preface to Crossing the Iceberg
  Chen Ziming provides a portrait of former political prisoner Sun Liyong, a Beijing police officer who called for official accountability for June Fourth.
• Wu Wenjian: June Fourth Painter
  Liao Yiwu, author of The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories: China from the Bottom Up, interviews Wu Wenjian, a Beijing worker and aspiring artist imprisoned as a June Fourth “thug.”
• The Story of Wang Lianxi
  Hou Jie describes the innate sense of fairness of Wang Lianxi, a mentally impaired sanitation worker in Beijing imprisoned after June Fourth.
• Let Our Children’s Lives Continue through Us: Interview with Ding Zilin
  Li Heng interviews Ding Zilin of the Tiananmen Mothers.
• A Tibetan’s View of June Fourth: Human Rights in China Interviews Rigzin
  Rigzin, who was in Lhasa in spring 1989, describes a Tibetan perspective on the 1989 Democracy Movement.
• June Fourth and East Turkestan
  Alim Seytoff recounts the hopes of the Uyghur minority for the 1989 Democracy Movement.

Constructing Social Justice

• Looking Back and Looking Forward
  Wang Dan, one of the student leaders of the 1989 Democracy Movement, examines the sustained impact of the June Fourth crackdown on Chinese society.
• Massacre and Miracle
  Hu Ping explores the relationship between the June Fourth crackdown and China’s economic “miracle.”
• Why Have China’s Peasants Become the Major Force in Social Resistance?
  He Qinglian describes how, with its current economic Growth model, the Chinese government may soon find itself in a checkmate.
• Political Legitimacy and Charter 08
  Rights defense lawyer Teng Biao questions the roots of legitimacy of the Chinese government and highlights the importance of Charter 08 to the future.
• Upon Reading Tanks and Poetry: An Essay
  Yi Ping reflects on the role of writing in the face of human tragedy.

Regular Features

• Take Action: June Fourth Pardons
  Take Action: June Fourth Prisoner List
  Take Action Checklist
• Timeline: Human Rights Defenders
• Culture Matters
  • Historical Documents of the Sins of the Mao Era
    Gao Wenqian reviews Yan Jisheng’s Tombstone: A Record of the Great Chinese Famine of the 1960s.
  • Grim Accounting
    The film China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province documents the stories of parents who lost their children during the May 12, 2008 earthquake as a result of shoddy school-building construction.
• HRIC in Action