Monday, May 5, 2008Beijing
Tiananmen Square is important for me to see, given the impression the student uprisings there made on me in the 80’s. On t.v., it‘s a big, piazza-like square where everyone congregates. In real life, it’s a massive plaza—4.8 million square feet—with almost nothing but pavement. Populated by red capped children, marching “child soldiers,” the occasional tourist, and a myriad of scammers offering to be your personal guide (a well known trap for foreigners) it’s a whole lot of open without a whole lot of structure. Very eerie. Very big.
Very Tiananmen.
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