Beijing Keeps Trying to Rewrite History

For more than two decades, the city passed Galschiøt s assessment. Students and activists gathered every spring to ceremonially wash the structure, which across its base reads The old cannot kill the young forever. The ritual was the first in a sequence of events held every year in Hong Kong to mark the anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre culminating with the candlelight vigil. Now, though, the pillar is caught in a sort of purgatory unwanted by the university, which has tried to remove it but faced fierce resistance, and Galschiøt s attempts to retrieve it have gone unanswered. The awkward situation is representative of the city itself, not entirely subjugated by Beijing but not as free, open, or vibrant as it once was.

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In Hong Kong, students are fighting to keep a statue and not forget the past.