This is not the conclusion of an incident, but a new beginning. Lies written in ink can never disguise facts written in blood. This is not the conclusion of an incident, but a new beginning.
Lies written in ink can never disguise facts written in blood.
This is a depressing and chilling time for most Chinese writers, a period when they dare not challenge the Government and must resignedly leave their best manuscripts in their desk drawers. But Lu Xun, widely regarded as the greatest Chinese writer of this century, is as untamed as ever, and his essays continue to be circulated openly. When the Government fired on crowds of protesters last summer and then launched a propaganda campaign to amend history, it was Lu Xun's statement quoted above that became the anthem of the opposition. That incident has been largely forgotten today, but there are haunting parallels to the violence of June 4, 1989. Immediately after the 1926 incident, the authorities denounced the ''rioters,'' and after a while some people wondered aloud if perhaps the students had not been foolish to confront the Government so openly.