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June Fourth Overview

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June Fourth refers to the June 3-4, 1989 government military crackdown that ended the large-scale, peaceful protests in Beijing and other cities that spring and early summer. Despite persistent citizen demands for the truth and an accounting of the bloodshed, Continue reading →

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June Fourth at 25: Resisting Enforced Amnesia, Building a Just Future

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In June 1989, the Chinese authorities ended a peaceful protest movement by ordering a military crackdown that killed an untold number of unarmed civilians.

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25 YEARS AFTER TIANANMEN:ASK PRESIDENT XI JINPING TO IMPLEMENT CHINA’S CONSTITUTION !

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The “Chinese Spring,” in which millions of demonstrators demanded freedom and democracy, was crushed brutally by the army on 4 June 1989. Twenty-five years after the Tiananmen Square massacre, China’s citizens are still denied fundamental freedoms, Continue reading →

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Some people say the darkest time is just before dawn

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JONATHAN MIRSKY: An Inconvenient Past

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May 23, 2014
During the night of June 3-4, 1989, when the Chinese Army was slaughtering demonstrators in Tiananmen Square, Wang Nan, a young student, was shot in the head. As he lay dying at the side of the road, soldiers threatened to kill anyone, even some young doctors, Continue reading →

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Xu Youyu： Intellectual Discourses in Post-Mao China and Today

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published: May 24, 2014

Dear Editor,

In late 2012, on behalf of the Louis Green Lecture committee of Monash University, I invited Professor Xu Youyu, who I had never met before, to fly to Australia to deliver a public lecture. My recommendation of Prof Xu to the Committee was simply out of profound admiration for Continue reading →

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Perry Link:The Anaconda in the Chandelier-Chinese censorship today

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5/27/2005

In China’s Mao years you could be detained and persecuted for talking with your neighbor about your cat. The Chinese word for “cat” (mao, high level tone) is a near-homonym for the name of the Great Leader (mao, rising tone), and a tip to the police from an eavesdropper who misheard one for the other and took you to be disrespectful could ruin your life. Continue reading →

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Political Cartoon – Tombs in Beijing Tiananmen Square

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Posted 25 May 2014 4:34 GMT
Political cartoonist @badiucao’s latest work is to commemorate the 25 anniversary of June 4 Incident – “If we are to set up tombs for victims of June 4, Continue reading →

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