“What you might not have heard about is how a leader of that crushed movement is trying to put the boot into a pillar of democracy right here in Boston.

Ling Chai, sometimes called commander in chief of the 1989 demonstrations, now lives in Massachusetts and heads a successful software company, Jenzabar Inc. In the years since she fled China, she has spoken passionately about the importance of free speech.

And yet Jenzabar is using the courts to bring two filmmakers to near-ruin because their website contains excerpts from, and links to, articles critical of Chai and her firm.”

Personally I don’t concern about the basic history education (like high school level history textbooks), but rather if academic diversity is allowed.

You know what they say about assumptions and presumptions…

But in any case, I think it’s great that Chinese are more interested in their own history now more than ever before, though the state of history education in China…well, that’s probably the subject of a whole other post.

Chinese are more interested in their own history now than ever, is because,

1. Chinese are better educated now.
2. A lot of them don’t have much faith in finding the answers to China’s questions today outside of China. China’s own history is the right place to look.