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China Rights Forum
May 29, 2008
April 15, 1989 Death of Hu Yaobang: Party General Secretary from 1981 to 1987, Hu was accused of being too liberal with intellectuals and students and of promoting “bourgeois liberalization” during the 1986–1987 protests. Continue reading
A Brief Chronology of the 1989 Democracy Movement and Crackdown in Beijing已关闭评论
Posted in June 4th Commemoration
Photo of the Tiananmen Square on June 2, 1989 crowded with Chinese people demanding democracy.
Thousands of protestors gather in Tiananmen Square on June 2, 1989.
PHOTOGRAPH BY CATHERINE HENRIETTE, AFP/GETTY
National Geographic
PUBLISHED JUNE 1, 2014
Twenty-five years after the Chinese government ordered the army to Continue reading
Q&A: Author on “People’s Republic of Amnesia”-Louisa Lim revisits Tiananmen, 25 years after the Chinese crackdown.已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration
By Mike Chinoy, Special for CNN
updated 8:28 PM EDT, Tue June 3, 2014
Editor’s note: Mike Chinoy was CNN’s Beijing Bureau Chief in 1989. He is currently a Senior Fellow at the U.S.-China Institute at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. Continue reading
How covering June 4 Tiananmen Square crackdown kicked off ‘CNN Effect’已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration
Tagged CNN, June 4th, Mike Chinoy, Tiananmen
Zhaohui Rui (left) and Huaguang Zhao join VOA Mandarin reporter Xin Chen on the set of “Pro and Con” on May 30, 2014.
May 30, 2014 Continue reading
Tiananmen Square Eyewitnesses Open Up to VOA Ahead of 25th Anniversary已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration
Tagged Huaguang Zhao, June 4th, Tiananmen, Zhaohui Rui
Twenty-five years after the massacre, the Chinese government wants people to forget it ever happened. But one little museum keeps the truth alive. Continue reading
Tiananmen Revisited
LOUISA LIM05.28.14
Zhang Ming has become used to his appearance startling small children. Skeletally thin, with cheeks sunk deep into his face, he walked gingerly across the cream-colored hotel lobby as if his limbs were made of glass. Continue reading
‘Staying’—An Excerpt from ‘People’s Republic of Amnesia’已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration
Tagged June 4th, Tiananmen, Zhang Ming
By LOUISE WATT and ISOLDA MORILLO
— May. 30, 2014 3:26 AM EDT
Tiananmen leader denied in bid to return to China
China: US must be objective about Asia tensions
Wu’er Kaixi Continue reading
25 YEARS ON, NO FADING OF TIANANMEN WOUNDS, IDEALS已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration
Tagged June 4th, Tiananmen, Wuer Kaixi
Oren Dorell, USA TODAY 7:48 p.m. EDT May 30, 2014
(Photo: Oren Dorell, USA TODAY)
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Adam Chen’s life changed in Beijing on June 4, 1989, when he saw friends shot to death in what became known as the Tiananmen Square massacre. Thousands of people died that day, Continue reading
