Posted Jun 6, 2009 by Wand'rin star
I joined a colleague on a trip from Shanghai to an island called Putoshan. We taught Scottish dancing to her graduating teacher trainees and were joined by some Chinese sailors. On the trip back, we were the only Europeans on the ship and people kept sidling up to us to ask if we'd heard any news from Beijing....
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Posted Jun 7, 2009 by Sho (I hate computers)
What a great memory, tinged with a bit of that goosebump thing you get when you realise that you were close to a world-changing event.
Are you going to write your memoirs at all? You have an awfully good story to write.
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Posted Jun 7, 2009 by Wand'rin star
I find people's memoirs pretty boring on the whole, unless they're in some way professional writers, but I'm definitely going to put it together for the grandchildren, as I have found that some memories seem to have slipped the sons' memories.
By the time I finally left China, I was slightly closer to the situation. Some of my students went to Beijing and never returned, and I was given a video to smuggle out (successfully)
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Posted Jun 7, 2009 by Sho (I hate computers)
Whereas I love memoirs - as long as the writing isn't totally excruciating I really love to read about other people's lives (not in a Hello! or OK sort of way)
Memoirs like One Pair of Hands/Feet and the like are far more interesting to me than something about Queen Victoria (for eg)
And the fact that you really did live through those Chinese interesting times, but with an outsider's perspective, is something really worth reading about.
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Posted Jun 7, 2009 by Galaxy Babe
I was just struck by the title of your journal, as this morning I've been writing about the events of 20 years ago for my next Babe Among the Stars column for The Post. Not China though, but the same year 1989.
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Posted Jun 7, 2009 by Sho (I hate computers)
1989 was a big year all round, I think.
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