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China Change Invites Your Comments:What does it mean for the world, for the US, and for us as individuals to have an authoritarian China, with the world’s biggest economy soon and 1/5 of the world population, that rejects universal values?

May 26, 2014

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Lately not a day has passed without me stopping in the middle of something, gripped by disbelief: It’s been 25 years since the Tian’anmen democracy movement in 1989, and today, in 2014, Continue reading

25 Years Ago: Tide Turns Toward Hard-Liner

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the nationwide, student-led democracy movement in China, and the subsequent June 4th military crackdown in Beijing. To commemorate the student movement, CDT is posting a series of original news articles from 1989, beginning

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Tiananmen Massacre 25th anniversary: the silencing campaign

Communist party redoubles efforts to silence any mention of Tiananmen Square in the run-up to the 25th anniversary of the bloody suppression of the student protests

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A blood-covered protestor holds a Chinese soldier’s helmet Continue reading

Chinese Man Detained for Posting Photos of Him in Tiananmen

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The Goddess of Democracy stands again: #MorganChua commemorates the opening of the world’s first #Tiananmen museum.

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The Goddess of Democracy stands again: Heralded cartoonist Morgan Chua commemorates the opening of the world’s first #Tiananmen museum in TIANANMEN: 25th Anniversary Edition. http://ow.ly/x2lkz

SAMPLE & ORDER: http://www.epigrambooks.sg/tiananmen-25th-anniversary-edition/— 摄于六四紀念館 June 4th Memorial Museum 。

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Chinese Artist Detained Before Tiananmen Anniversary

By ANDREW JACOBS MAY 9, 2014 7:53 AM

09sino-artist-tmagArticleChen Guang, in 2009, in front of paintings based on his experiences during the suppression of the Tiananmen Square protests.

The New York Times

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23 Year Remembrance of Tiananmen Square – May 25th 1989, Beijing China

Posted on 25 May, 2012 by courage89
Written by Diane Gatterdam

 

Twenty-three years ago on this day Thursday May 25th 1989, the Autonomous Federation of Students sent 5 teams of students to various places around the country to network, Continue reading

June Fourth Overview

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