Global Voices Online is an incredible site that "seeks to amplify, curate and aggregate the global conversation online - with a focus on countries and communities outside the U.S. and Western Europe." Frank Dai, one of Global Voices Online's Chinese bloggers has an informative, link-rich and moving post on the 17th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre. We forget, I forget, and take for granted the freedom we have to post our thoughts, theories, rants, commentary and other fragments to the blogosphere.
Dai quotes (in translation) Zheng, another Chinese blogger; it is a particularly forward-looking view of what we should commemorate today:
The thing needed to magnify is the voice, the continuity, not the boring and faded mourning and commemoration year after year. History won’t repeat. New questions are ahead in front of us, and it’s these new questions that make the voice resurrect.
So here's to the continued asking of new questions, and the preservation of the freedoms that allow us to do so.
Bonus Links:
- Adopt a Blogger - put your extra blog space to work and adopt a blogger who cannot host their own.
- Sinosplice, an amazing site by John (an American grad student living in China) that includes Chinese language resources, English & Chinese blogs, photos and other resources to offer a apolitical view of life in China.
Tags: china, 8964, freedom of speech, chinese bloggers, global voices
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