Tiananmen Massacre, Beijing Below Zero, Baby Denied Visa [China Compass]
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🗓️ 4 June 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
On this edition of China Compass I discuss the 35th Anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Then I give my first and favorite impressions of Beijing, telling some of my favorite stories from the Chinese capital, including the miracle of getting my son’s very first visa. Finally, a little Q&A, focusing on cultural questions.
Pray for China, focusing this week on Beijing! We have missionary friends there who covet your prayers for their family: www.PrayforChina.us
Tiananmen links:
https://bitterwinter.org/thirty-years-after-tiananmen-and-religion/
https://www.nytimes.com/1999/04/11/magazine/the-pilgrimage-from-tiananmen-square.html
And lots of shocking details here…
https://factsanddetails.com/china/cat2/sub7/entry-7461.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests_and_massacre
The very helpful and fascinating Chai Ling biography I referenced…
A Heart for Freedom: The Remarkable Journey of a Young Dissident, Her Daring Escape, and Her Quest to Free China's Daughters https://a.co/d/0KWT3ca
Finally, the dragon article I mentioned in the Q&A…
https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/mythic-creatures/dragons/asian-dragons
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the China Compass Podcast |
| 0:10.0 | This is your host, Missionary Ben, also known as B.F. Weston, that's my |
| 0:18.3 | pen name for the books, the books that I've written, one book and the two books that I have helped to edit and republish recently. |
| 0:26.4 | The book that I wrote is called Unbeaten. |
| 0:28.9 | It's about my time being arrested and deported from China six years ago. |
| 0:34.8 | Unbeaten. VIP is the website where you can get that. |
| 0:38.2 | You can also search for that on Amazon. |
| 0:40.8 | Besides unbeaten, I helped to edit for a republication a book called Borden of Yale about the life and legacy of William Borden, who was the millionaire missionary missionary who tried to make it to China and |
| 0:54.7 | never did. He died on his way to China but it's an amazing story of his legacy. |
| 1:00.1 | Borden of Yale.com is where you can find that also on Amazon and then finally |
| 1:05.4 | Tears for Tan. I did a whole podcast about Tears for Tan a week or so ago |
| 1:10.3 | John G. Payton. John G. Payton.com is where you can find that also on Amazon. |
| 1:15.8 | I republished about the first half of his testimony that he wrote himself |
| 1:20.6 | a hundred and something odd years ago. He was born 200 years ago and it's an amazing |
| 1:25.9 | missionary story as well. So B.F. Weston is what I use from my PIN name. Missionary |
| 1:31.0 | Ben is what you can call me here, I guess, or just Ben. |
| 1:34.0 | And it's going to be back on the Fight Laugh Feast network here. |
| 1:39.0 | Today is a bittersweet day. |
| 1:42.0 | I want to say special, it's not a special day, it's a sad day, it's the |
| 1:46.7 | 35th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square incident or massacre you could say the Chinese government |
| 1:54.1 | obviously would not use the term massacre they would call it a protest |
| 1:58.5 | an uprising that was properly squelched and but it was in many ways a massacre and the details on the |
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