Ning Hui

I was born in the Zhejiang Province in China 1989 and grew up reading about politics. I remember in political science class in Dalian Maritime University, my professor would vaguely mention the year 1989—with no written record or complete introduction, leaving the students confused. For my friends and I who were curious about the Tiananmen Square event, it wasn’t easy to access information and the Great Firewall which was put in place in 2003 made it even harder, since most documentaries are on overseas websites.

On Mar. 1, a violent attack claimed 29 lives in Kunming station. Only a few hours later, a seemingly unrelated topic began trending on Sina Weibo: Jia Zhangke’s A Touch of Sin, a film about four random and brutal acts of violence, each echoing with an actual Chinese crime case of recent years.

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