Shen Tong - 30th Anniversary Of Tiananmen Massacre
shen Tong (right) What is Shen Tong's role in the Tiananmen Square revolution ? Twenty-five years ago, Shen Tong was 20. He was a thoughtful student at Beida University who became one of the main negotiators of the Tiananmen Square demonstration, co-chairing the committee on dialogue with the Chinese government. "I always expected things to be harsh," he recalls when I met him in the New York office of his software company, VFinity . But when the harshness came, even he didn't believe it. The person standing next to him on Changan Avenue collapsed and died and still, he thought: "Oh, it's a rubber bullet." People were bleeding in the courtyard of his home, being dragged on to roofs for safety, and yet, he says: "You somehow felt you were invincible. It took so long for reality to sink in." Shen Tong had been accepted to do Masters in Biology at Brandeis University in Massachusetts; by means he still cannot r...