 "CATCH ’EM YOUNG: (From far left) Dahai, a military child and netizen; Xiaoxiao, an entrepreneur, and Lucifer, a singer. Photo Courtesy: Lu Ran & Christopher Cherry")
Wish Lanterns: Young Lives in New China
Author: Alec Ash
Publisher: Picador
Pages: 320
Price: Rs 499
About 31 years ago, thousands of students of Peking University marched out of their historic campus and covered the short distance to Tiananmen Square in Beijing to commemorate the death of Hu Yaobang, a reformist official who had been purged by the Communist Party. For a month, the students laid siege to the city square, demanding better government and democracy. They were joined by labourers and other dissident groups, and soon hunger strikes and other demonstrations started. Having allowed the protests to simmer,
