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Tiananmen Square Anniversary Prompts Campaign of Silence

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By ANDREW JACOBS MAY 27, 2014
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A police officer guarded a Mao Zedong portrait at Tiananmen Square in Beijing. Credit Petar Kujundzic/Reuters

BEIJING — Even by the standards of the clampdowns that Continue reading →

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China detains Nikkei journalist ahead of Tiananmen anniversary

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May 28, 2014 12:49 pm

By Lucy Hornby in Beijing

The Nikkei Japanese news agency was on Wednesday formally notified of the detention of its Chinese news assistant two weeks after she was taken from her home by Chinese security agents.

The detention is part of a pattern of arrests of civil rights activists Continue reading →

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4 Things We Overlook About Tiananmen

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Posted: May 27, 2014 in Politics
In the lead up to the Tiananmen crackdown’s anniversary, there have been a lot of articles looking back on the event – some with new interesting angles, some just dusting off stories from five years ago. But in reading this stuff, I’ve noticed that some things tend to get overlooked or remembered in a skewed Continue reading →

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Sensitive Words: May Thirty-fifth and More

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As of May 27, the following search terms are blocked on Weibo (not including the “search for user” function).

Tiananmen: More keywords blocked in relation to the approaching anniversary of June 4th. Continue reading →

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THE INTERVIEW:Liao Yiwu, Exiled Chinese writer and poet

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When tanks rolled into Beijing on June 3, 1989 on the way to a bloody crackdown on Tiananmen Square, Liao Yiwu was at home in Sichuan province. Shocked by news of the tragedy, in which hundreds died, he wrote a long poem that night, Continue reading →

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“If I don’t write this book, who will?”: Interview with Louisa Lim, author of The People’s Republic of Amnesia

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With the 25th anniversary of the violent suppression of student protests on June 4, 1989 coming upon us next week, we spoke to Louisa Lim, a journalist for NPR who has written a book about the events of Continue reading →

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CEFC cordially invites you to attend the following conference:June Fourth 25th Anniversary International Conference

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CEFC cordially invites you to attend the following conference:

June Fourth 25th Anniversary International Conference

 

Date: 30th-31st May 2014 (Friday-Saturday)
Time: 9:00am – 5:00pm (Day 1); 9:00am – 6:00pm (Day 2) Continue reading →

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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?

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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 →

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