Collection of June Fourth Poems
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Collection of June Fourth Poems: Commemorating the Tiananmen Square Protest is an anthology of poems commemorating the June Fourth protests in China (Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, also known as the June Fourth Incident in Chinese , were a series of demonstrations in and near Tiananmen Square in Beijing in the People's Republic of China beginning on 15 April 1989...

). The poems were written by victims, exiled activists and international supporters. It documents the history and cultural impact of the June Fourth movement.

Overview

The chief editor is Pinchao Jiang, a student leader in June Fourth Event. Other editors include Wang Dan, Boli Zhang, Pokong Cheng, also student leaders; Hongbin Yuan, an organizer of the supporting teachers group from Beijing University; Xue Sheng, an organizer of the overseas supporting group; and Caitlin Anderson, a doctorate candidate of Research Center of East Asia of Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....

.

The advisory committee include Yu Ying-shih
Yu Ying-shih
Yu Ying-shih is a Chinese American historian known for his mastery of sources for Chinese history and philosophy, his ability to synthesize them on a wide range of topics, and for his advocacy for a new Confucianism...

, who is a professor at Princeton University and the winner of the life achievement in literature and social sciences Kluge Prize
Kluge Prize
The John W. Kluge Prize for the Study of Humanity is awarded for lifetime achievement in the humanistic and social sciences to celebrate the importance of the Intellectual Arts for the public interest.-Overview:...

; Perry Link
Perry Link
Perry Link is Chancellorial Chair Professor for Innovative TeachingComparative Literature & Foreign Languages in College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at University of California, Riverside and Emeritus Professor of East Asian Studies at Princeton University. He specializes in modern...

, who is the professor of Research Center of East Asia of Princeton University; Juntao Wang, who is a doctor of politics at Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

, and was the coordinator between the government and the student in the period of June Fourth Democratic Movement; Situ Hua, who was the chairman of The Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements in China; Hengnan Jiang, who is the director of the America Democratic Education Foubdation; Zhiwei Hu, who was the commissioner of the Bureau of Art Development, chairman of Literature Committee of Hongkang; Jiangyuang Zhen, who is the doctor of the Institute of National Development of National Taiwan University, and the former vice-director of Ministry of Law of Brainpower; Xiqiu Fu, the director of the Association of American Aid China; Amber Jia, the majordomo of Asian market department of UnitedHealthCare Company, which is the 14th biggest company in the USA.

The Collection produced by June Fourth Heritage & Culture Association
June Fourth Heritage & Culture Association
June Fourth Heritage & Culture Association is a United States-based non-governmental non-profit organization that conducts research and advocacy on the Culture of June Fourth Movement, Democracy, Political Freedom, and Human Rights in China....

in co-operation with Taiwan Foundation for Democracy and the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Los Angeles

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