Category Archives: June 4th Commemoration

June 4-A Day to Remember/A Day Forgotten

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China’s suppression of the memory of the June 4 massacre of demonstrators in Beijing in 1989 is a perennial and important subject of commentary. Continue reading

A Visit to Hong Kong’s June 4th Museum

AMY CHUNG06.03.14

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People visit the June 4th Museum in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong, on opening day, April 26, 2014. It is the world’s first museum dedicated to the massacre in Tiananmen Square in Beijing in 1989. Continue reading

China: 25 Years after Tiananmen Massacre

China: 25 Years after Tiananmen Massacre

中国:“六四”25周年

Kina: 1989 och Framtiden

– 25 år sedan det politiska vägvalet

vid Himmelska Fridens Torg

 

 

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Bei Ming: I am the Tank Man /Wang Weilin

八九六四輓歌第六章:我是王維林

A Dirge of June 4th, 1989, Chapter 6:

 I am the Tank Man /Wang Weilin

北明

Bei Ming

翻譯:馬悅然,賴安智

Translation:Göran Malmqvist,  Anzhi  Lai

 

1989年春夏之交,数名西方记者分别從北京飯店高层摄下了一個震撼世界的場景,多年以後,這一場景仍然震撼西方神經。那是1989年6月4日,清晨始,军队血洗木樨地后,控制了天安门广场, Continue reading

Ma Jian: Tiananmen Square 25 years on: ‘Every person in the crowd was a victim of the massacre’

In June 1989, the novelist Ma Jian was among the million freedom protesters who gathered in Tiananmen Square. The brutal response shocked the world and crushed the Democracy Movement. But, he says, its spirit and aspirations live on
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Hong Kong Remembers Tiananmen Square Protests

Rebecca Valli

June 01, 2014 2:25 PM

HONG KONG — Hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong residents gathered a few days early to mark the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests on June 4, 1989, crushed with deadly force by Chinese troops. Continue reading

Tiananmen 25 Years Later: Leaders Who Were There

Testimony by Zhou Fengsuo in front of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee 

Hearing on May 30, 2014

Published: June 4th, 2014

 

Dear Mr. Chairman and Members of the committee:

Thank you for inviting me to come to this special event, a time for remembrance and celebration. Continue reading

Teng Biao: Speech during the June 4th Vigil in Victoria Park in Hong Kong

by Yaxue Cao

By Teng Biao, published: June 5, 2014

 


June 4th Vigil in Victoria Park, Hong Kong. 180,000 attended.

In 1989, I was a high school student in a small county in Northeastern China. Two years later, I was admitted into Peking University. Continue reading