Beijing believed to be behind court bid to secure account of life inside Communist HQ
In the early hours of 4 June 1989, Li Rui, a veteran of the Chinese Communist party , was standing on the balcony of his apartment on Chang’an Boulevard in central Beijing. He could see tanks rolling towards Tiananmen Square.
Li’s papers are, therefore, thus a crucial archive. “It’s hard to overstate their significance,” says Joseph Torigian, a research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. But on Monday, a court in California, not, will begin hearing a trial about the fate of those diaries, the culmination of five years of legal wrangling that have complicated Li’s legacy since he died in February 2019, at the age of 101.
Lawyers for Zhang, who did not respond to interview requests, say it is about privacy. The materials reflect “deeply personal” affairs, including “intimate correspondence”, her lawyers argue. The “ongoing violations” of her privacy have caused “severe emotional distress”. Li was keenly aware of this trend. In 2013, he said in an interview: “There are classified materials of the party about the Cultural Revolution … I heard it was all burned.” Such titbits have been marshalled by Stanford to argue that Li wanted his papers preserved at Hoover. But Zhang’s lawyers have found their own bits of evidence in Li’s voluminous writings and interviews. In 2014, he said, “Li Nanyang is Li Nanyang, and I am myself.
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