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  • Inconvenient Memories: A Personal Account of the Tiananmen Square Incident and the China Before and After

  • By: Anna Wang
  • Narrated by: Lisa Cordileone
  • Length: 13 hrs and 58 mins
  • 3.8 out of 5 stars (4 ratings)

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Inconvenient Memories: A Personal Account of the Tiananmen Square Incident and the China Before and After

By: Anna Wang
Narrated by: Lisa Cordileone
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Inconvenient Memories is a rare and truthful memoir of a young woman's coming of age amid the Tiananmen Protests of 1989. In 1989, Anna Wang was one of a lucky few who worked for a Japanese company, Canon. She traveled each day between her grandmother’s dilapidated commune-style apartment and an extravagant office just steps from Tiananmen Square. Her daily commute on Beijing’s impossibly crowded buses brought into view the full spectrum of China’s economic and social inequalities during the economic transition.

When Tiananmen Protests broke out, her Japanese boss was concerned whether the protests would obstruct Canon’s assembly plant in China, and she was sent to Tiananmen Square on a daily basis to take photos for her boss to analyze for evidence of turning tides. From the perspective as a member of the emerging middle class, she observed firsthand that Tiananmen Protests stemmed from Chinese people’s longing for political freedom and their fear for the nascent market economy, an observation that listeners have never come across from the various accounts of the historical events so far.
©2019 Yuan Wajg (P)2019 Yuan Wang
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loved the history, flow, honesty and details of your writing. I look forward to your next book. well done.

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