Meaning of Symbols: 1000th Post

Awaiting a Democratic Hong Kong

This is Glutter’s 1000th post.

Again, I have turned part of my site black, this time not to protest but to mourn. I am mourning a man, but also a symbol. A man who is a symbol of a more open, accepting, reformist China.

In places where people can not speak their minds without persecution, a lot of weight is attached to the subtext. The meaning behind an act is
all the more powerful. When his daughter said “He is free at last.” She was saying something about his hopes, her hopes and mine as well.

Glutter Mourns the death of Zhao Zi Yang.

Published by Yan Sham-Shackleton

Yan Sham-Shackleton is a Hong Kong writer who lives in Los Angeles. This is her old blog Glutter written mostly in Hong Kong from 2003 to 2007. Although it was a personal blog, Yan focused a lot on free speech issues and democratic movement in Hong Kong. She moved to the US in 2007.

5 thoughts on “Meaning of Symbols: 1000th Post

  1. I love your site b/c I learn. I’m in the process f reconstituting my weblog, and think that maybe I’ll try to take a more socially-conscious approach.
    I had never heard or read about Yang until I read your posts. I’m grateful for that.

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  2. You may mourn and pay tribute to Zhao Ziyang online here:
    http://crdea.net/zzy
    DISCLAIMER: By so doing, you are probably breaking the Basic Laws and, by logical or illogical inference, may by liable to scolding and brain-laundering by our adorable Communist comrades, the reason being that two is definitely bigger than one.

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  3. keep the faith glutter girl…for the very least, this is the first time I’m actually accessing your site and my blog on the internet via internet connection in china!

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