BY WILLIAM WAN May 31
In 2006, Liu Yi began painting in secret faces meant to represent those killed in the 1989 crackdown. For years, he said, he showed the work to no one except his wife and a handful of close friends, not wanting to alienate dealers for his Continue reading
By ANDREW JACOBS and CHRIS BUCKLEYJUNE 2, 2014
Residents and soldiers on the street in Beijing on June 6, 1989 after the crackdown on protesters. Credit LIU Heung Shing/Associated Press Continue reading
May 30, 2014 6:23 pm
The Chinese artist and Tiananmen protester’s recent pieces include a landscape painting created with small pieces of litter and a diorama of Tiananmen Square with minced pork
June 2, 2014
Philip Wen
China correspondent for Fairfax Media
Beijing: Prominent Australian artist Guo Jian has been detained in China amid a heightened security operation in central Beijing aimed at preventing the commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Continue reading
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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Zhaohui Rui (left) and Huaguang Zhao join VOA Mandarin reporter Xin Chen on the set of “Pro and Con” on May 30, 2014.
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Tiananmen Square Eyewitnesses Open Up to VOA Ahead of 25th Anniversary已关闭评论
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