Enlightened Intelligentsia & Petition Movements
 
Bao Zunxin, author of "Insider Stories of June 4th: An Unfinished Nirvana" [Wind & Cloud Publishing House, April 1997 edition, Taipei, Taiwan], gave account of the parallel thread to the student movement. (Bao Zunxin, similar to majority folks, including communists, had been either shy or timid, i.e., omitting the word "massacre", in giving name to his book.) "Insider Stories of June 4th" started with his Jan 28th 1989 attendance of "New Enlightenment Salon" gathering inside of Dule Bookstore at the invitation of the female proprietary owner Yu Yansha. Yu Yansha, who had a same name bookstore in Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, was a sociable woman capable of liaisoning with "distinguished" people both inside and outside of the "system" [i.e., government].
 
The Saturday gathering was originally intended for Wang Yuanhua's "new enlightenment book series" which did not look solid in the eyes of Bao Zunxin. Both Wang Yuanhua & Wang Ruoshui were the hosts. (Wang Yuanhua & Bao Zunxin, in 1988, adopted the term "new enlightenment" on basis of a term first proposed by CCP propagandist Chen Boda & Heh Ganzhi in 1930s.) At the scene, Bao Zunxin encountered Jin Guanshou & Liu Qingfeng couple who claimed that CCP leader Hu Qili had warned them in regards to a speech by Jin Guanshou that "the failure of some socialist countries was one of the two major events of 20th century". Jin Guanshou was the organizer of "21st Century Research Institute" and brought along his members like Zhang Gang and Jia Xinmin. Semi-retired communist theorists, like Li Rui, Dong Dalin, Qin Chuan, Hu Jiwei & Li Chang, also came. Together with the people "inside of the "system" would be those guys who had lost favor with communist leadership, including Su Shaozhi, Li Honglin, Yu Haocheng, & Wu Mingyu. Representing Chen Ziming's "Social, Economical & Scientific Research Institute of Peking" would be Min Qi, and representing Li Shengping's "Social & Scientific Development Research Institute of Peking" would be Zhang Xianyang, Li Ming & Yan Jiaqi.
 
To the surprise of Bao Zunxin, Fang Lizhi, former university vice president of China Science & Technology University in Anhui Province, suddenly descended upon the salon, with almost simultaneous photo sessions by a few foreign reporters who had been waiting at the scene. Fang Lizhi stated that recently he wrote an open letter to Deng Xiaoping demanding the release of Wei Jingsheng [i.e., Democracy Wall activist] in accordance with "human rights declaration" that China had signed in 1948. Fang Lizhi further stated that in the past, he had adopted the approach of "fighting communists inside of system" by requiring that all staff members of his research institute at China Science & Technology University enroll in CCP. Fang Lizhi claimed that he had now decided to "fight communists from outside of system". After Fang Lizhi dropped the bomb, silence reigned in the salon. With the impasse, Wang Yuanhua announced dismissal of the gathering shortly afterward. Bao Zunxin was disappointed that nobody at the salon had mentioned the term "new enlightenment".
 
Three days after the salon event, Bao Zunxin received a call from a friend "inside of the system", i.e., a warning in regards to Fang Lizhi's subversive activities. Bao Zunxin realized that he could be on a blacklist by then. In Hubei Province, Long Yuequn of Hunan Education Publishing House was interrogated by the public security bureau for attending the salon. In Shanghai, Wang Yuanhua received assurance from CCP deputy branch secretary Rui Xinwen in regards to the salon gathering. (Rui Xinwen belonged to moderate CCP leadership, by the way.) After the massacre, Bao Zunxin asked Wang Juntao repeatedly whether any "black hands" were behind student movement. Wang Juntao mentioned that some intellectuals did give opinions and ideas to students. However, Bao Zunxin stated that only Fang Lizhi had made visits to Peking University while Wang Ruoshui, after 1987 purge, had shunned himself from campuses.
 
Bao Zunxin likened Fang Lizhi's inflamatory speech to writer Lun Xun's description of "sound asleep Chinese populace in a dark house with no windows". In following months, more intellectuals joined Fang Lizhi, demanding political reform. On Feb 12th, Sunday, poets Bei-dao [northern island] and Lao-mu [old wood] visited Bao Zunxin at his house. (I am not sure whether it was Bao Zunxin's new residency inside of "ti-zhi [bodily-system] gai-ge [reform] yian-jiu [research] suo [institute]". Do note communist play game with terminology in differentiating between ti-zhi [bodily-system] and zhi-du [system].) Bei-dao, who claimed he just returned to China but would leave for Britain again soon, produced an open letter for Bao Zunxin to sign, which was a followup to Fang Lizhi's call for general amnesty on two occasions: i) 40 year anniversary the founding of PRC on Oct 10th, and ii) 70th anniversary of May 4th Student Movement. It turned out to be the 33-signature open letter, with the first signatory being Bai-dao and the last one being Chen Jun. Bao Zunxin did not get to know the involvement of Chen Jun till he heard about a denounciation by a judicial ministry official on radio on Feb 22nd. In the following days, Bao Zunxin was shown a government-printed bulletin by Zhang Gang as well as received a copy in the mail about the 33-signature open letter. Senior female writer Bing-xin [icey heart] published a clarification letter on a HK newspaper on Feb 21st, claiming she did not know who Chen Jun was. Also in HK, CCP underground agents published an article about Wei Jingsheng's crimes on "Da [grand] Gong [public] Bao [newspaper]". CCP then transcribed the the two HK newspapers onto semi-internal party newspaper "News For [Your] Reference" as a propaganda war, ironically without carrying the contents of the original 33-signature open letter. Jing Jun of Peking University asked whether Bao Zunxin would be willing to be interviewed by American Broadcasting Corp. Bao Zunxin suggested Wang Ruoshui as a candidate for the interview.
 
Chen Jun, a contributor to US-based "China Spring" magazine, had been engaged in anti-government activities via following covers, i.e., possibly possessing a US residency status, participating in "Chinese Modern Arts Exhibition" in Peking, and operating a "Jie Jie Bar" sort of business in Peking. Chen Jun, often rebuking Chinese intellectuals as "cowards", subsequently organized "work panel for general amnesty in 1989" by assembling a group of artists and intellectuals inside of his bar for signatures. By early March, Bao Zunxin was contacted by Taiwan's "xin xin wen" [i.e., New News] for comments on Chen Jun's signature collection activity. It is clear that both the communists and the activists were utilizing the same trick of "exporting for sake of re-importing news reports". While some professor at Peking University wrote a self-criticism, Bao Zunxin authored an article for a Taiwan newspaper clarifying his standground on the open letter.
 
Synchronizing with Bai-dao and Chen Jun's signature collection activities would be that by Xu Liangying who took advantage of Hu Jiwei's "forum on democracy issues" held on Feb 26th inside of "Research & Development Company of Capital Steel & Iron Corporation [CSIC]". (The 60-participant "forum on democracy issues" was an activity organized by "democracy series" editorial committee and "Research & Development Company of CSIC".) With Wu Jiwei absent from signature activity due to People's National Congress membership, Xu Liangying assembled Li Honglin, Yu Haocheng, Zhang Xianyang, Wu Jiaxiang and Cao Siyuan etc for drafting and revising a declaration that was attentioned to top 4 CCP leadership, i.e., Zhao Ziyang, Wan Li, Li Xiannian & Li Peng. About 42 people, mostly scientists, signed the petition which was published on HK's "Jing [mirror] Bao [newspaper]".
 
Thereafter, CCP clamped down on dissent by prohibiting the scheduled convention on "comparing May 4th Movement & French Revolution" in Hubei Province. On March 14th, the opening ceremony of Chen Kuide & Wang Yan's "Thinker" magazine was cancelled when Qianmen [front citygate] Hotel and subsequently Nanhua [southern China] Hotel declined them at the intervention of state security ministry. At the lobby of Nanhua Hotel, Dai Qing, i.e., some adopted daughter of senior CCP leader Ye Jianying, took advantage of the stranded crowd in launching a new 43-signature petition movement which Bao Zunxin declined. Dai Qing later claimed that she, Su Wei and Chen Kuide signed their names out of the fury over meeting cancellation. One week later, Dai Qing, in the name of HK-Taiwan intellectuals, requested for Bao Zunxin in launching another petition movement which both Bao Zunxin and Yan Jiaqi did not concur with. Someone from HK, by the name of Zhang Langlang, called Bao Zunxin as to the refusal. Bao Zunxin further mentioned that New China News Agency announced on March 28th that some HK visitor was banned from entry into China at Tianjin airport. (Never underestimate the communist infiltration abilities !!!)