It is indeed a welcome sign:
By ROGER COHEN
Published: January 18, 2010
CHONGQING, CHINA — The tombstones loomed in the dusk, some of them rising more than 25 feet, each telling a forgotten story of China’s troubled history. I had come to find them because, for the first time, China has sanctioned the preservation here of a site commemorating the numberless victims of the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution. See link below for detail:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/19/opinion/19iht-edcohen.html?hp
By ROGER COHEN
Published: January 18, 2010
CHONGQING, CHINA — The tombstones loomed in the dusk, some of them rising more than 25 feet, each telling a forgotten story of China’s troubled history. I had come to find them because, for the first time, China has sanctioned the preservation here of a site commemorating the numberless victims of the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution. See link below for detail:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/19/opinion/19iht-edcohen.html?hp