Yale Bulletin and Calendar

October 21, 2005|Volume 34, Number 8

This wall poster titled "Love me, save me" will be on display in the Sterling Memorial Library exhibition "From the Caves to the Square."

Exhibit traces roots of
Tiananmen Square movement

A lecture and reception will mark the opening of a new exhibit in Sterling Memorial Library's Memorabilia Room on Friday, Oct. 28.

"From the Caves to the Square" will feature photographs of the Tiananmen Square movement of 1989 by David E. Apter, the Henry J. Heinz II Professor Emeritus of Comparative Political and Social Development. It will be accompanied by a small collection of published material from the library's extensive holdings on China.

"Following the famous Long March, the remnants of the Chinese Communist forces holed up in caves in Yanan where from 1936 to 1947, they created what might be called the 'New Jerusalem' of the Chinese revolution," writes Apter, who is also a lecturer in ethics, politics and economics and in political science.

"It was there that Mao propounded many of his theses, the more pithy sayings later being incorporated into the Little Red Book of the Cultural Revolution. From this point, the Communists began their sweep to power culminating in the proclamation of the Peoples' Republic in 1949 in Tiananmen Square," he says. "It was here in the spring of 1989 that the generation that inherited the revolution began their protest movement in favor of democracy. It was a movement that ended tragically and yet it remains a monument to the unfinished business of the Chinese revolution.

"This exhibition of photographs," he notes, "is a small homage to and testimony of the courage of those who tried to give voice to democratic aspirations."

The talk marking the opening of "From the Caves to the Square" will be presented by Jonathan Spence, Sterling Professor of History and an expert on China, at 3 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 28. It is free and open to the public.

The exhibit will be on display through the end of December 2005.

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