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Photo: Yangshuo, by Harry and Rowena Kennedy

Posted by Josh Rudolph | Nov 26, 2018

New “June Fourth” Sensitive Words Reference PLA Medals and Hong Kong Musicians

Posted by Alexander Boyd | Jun 7, 2024

In China, the 35th anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre was met with all-out digital censorship that quashed overt online mourning. In Hong Kong, efforts to publicly commemorate “June Fourth” were ruthlessly suppressed by...

35th Tiananmen Anniversary Commemorated Around the World

Posted by Arthur Kaufman | Jun 5, 2024

While the 35th anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre was massively censored within mainland China and Hong Kong, people elsewhere around the world made tributes in order to highlight the incident and reflect on its significance...

Censorship, Surveillance, and Detentions in Hong Kong Ahead of 35th Anniversary of Tiananmen Massacre

Posted by Arthur Kaufman | Jun 3, 2024

For decades on June 4, Hongkongers rallied in their thousands at the city’s Victoria Park to commemorate the anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre. Hong Kong was the only location in China where such large-scale public...

With Vigil Banned, Hong Kong Activists Commemorate June 4 Privately

Posted by Alexander Boyd | Jun 3, 2021

For three decades a vigil to commemorate those killed in Beijing on June 4, 1989 was held in Hong Kong’s Victoria Park. It was once the only Tiananmen Square memorial held on Chinese soil. Now, local authorities have used the...