Category Archives: June 4th Commemoration

Poetry anthology released to remember Tiananmen Square massacre

2014/06/01 21:06:49

Taipei, June 1 (CNA) A poetry anthology was released Sunday in Taipei to remember the Tiananmen Square massacre, a bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in China in 1989. Continue reading

Resources on the Tiananmen Square Protests: 25 Years Later

THE EDITORS 05.31.14

This June 4 marks 25 years since the military crackdown on student protestors in and around Tiananmen Square in Beijing, following months of demonstrations. This resource page includes links to our recently published pieces and to our archived stories on the Tiananmen Continue reading

A ‘Modern-Day Knight’ Who Helped Fleeing Tiananmen Activists

JUNE 6, 2014

 

Chan Tat Ching in his office in Hong Kong. Credit Lam Yik Fei for The New York Times

By CHRIS BUCKLEY

HONG KONG — WHEN tens of thousands of people gathered in Hong Kong this week to mourn the military carnage against protesters in Beijing 25 years ago, Chan Tat Ching stood among them, holding a candle and bowing to honor the dead. Continue reading

Fang Zheng: The Morning of June 4th and Its Long and Insidious Shadow (3)

By Fang Zheng, published: June 6, 2014

 

Wuchang Kidnapping

In Zhanjiang, I boarded a train to Wuchang, Hubei (湖北武昌) where I would transfer to the No. 88 train to Beijing. On the ferry, I met a middle-aged business woman, whose destination was Anyang, Henan, on the same route as me. She offered to Continue reading

Fang Zheng: The Morning of June 4th and Its Long and Insidious Shadow (2)

By Fang Zheng, published: June 4, 2014

 

A Disabled Athlete to Represent China, or Maybe Not

With the help of Wu Bei (吴蓓), a teacher at Beijing Steel and Iron College who also witnessed the Liubukou massacre, I settled in Hainan and worked for the real estate company run by Ms. Wu’s husband. After a while, Continue reading

Fang Zheng: The Morning of June 4th and Its Long and Insidious Shadow (1)

By Fang Zheng, published: June 3, 2014

4:30 AM AT THE MARTYR’S MONUMENT ON JUNE 4TH, 1989. STUDENTS SHOUTED TO SOLDIERS WHO HAD ARRIVED WITH GUNS, Continue reading

Interview: Louisa Lim on Tiananmen and China’s ‘Morality Crisis’

June 5th, 2014 by Christine Chung


Louisa Lim (Leila Navidi)
On June 19, 2014, at the Asia Society Texas Center, author and NPR China correspondent Louisa Lim will discuss her new book about the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.

Yesterday, the world marked the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing. Continue reading

China: Chronology of Tiananmen Crackdown Revealed in Wikileaks’ Cables

Posted 5 June 2014 8:24 GMT

Students in the data journalism class at Northeast Normal University searched Wikileaks for references to the 1989 demonstrations at Tiananmen Square and organized the diplomatic cables into a chronology of Continue reading