Surviving Communism continues with Orren Wang, who grew up in rural China to parents who never went to school, taught himself English off a radio, and became a student leader in the 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy movement. For thirty-seven years the Chinese Communist Party has worked to keep its own people from knowing what happened that spring. Today Jenny Beth Martin asks the man who was there.
Guest: Orren Wang, Tiananmen Square student leader in 1989, first-generation immigrant, and graduate of Western Kentucky University.
Today's topics:
• A village in rural China, parents who could not read, and a radio that carried English
• How a boy taught himself the language of the free world with no teacher and no book
• Growing up the son of a local Communist Party official: what it gave his family, and what it cost
• Spring 1989: what the students in Tiananmen Square were actually asking for
• How the son of a Party official ends up standing against the Party
• Thirty-seven years of erasure: why young people in China still cannot find the story
• Raised on official atheism: what the Party taught about God, and why communist governments always come for the churches
• Christians in China today
• Coming to America the hard way, and what he makes of the border now
• What it means to become an American, and whether we still ask people to do it
• His answer to young Americans who call themselves socialists
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