Tag: 1989 protests

Remembering Hu Yaobang, 25 Years On

On April 15, 1989, 25 years ago today, former CCP General Secretary Hu Yaobang died days after suffering a heart attack at his final meeting in Zhongnanhai. At the New York Times’ Sinosphere blog, Chris Buckley explains how the reform-minded liberal’s death catalyzed the turbulent spring that would follow, and how his legacy remains a potent symbol in China today: Rarely has the timing of an ousted leader’s death been so consequential. In 1989, Hu Yaobang,

April 15, 2014 11:55 AM

25 Years Ago: Hu Yaobang, 73, Dies in China

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the nationwide, student-led democracy movement in China, and the subsequent military crackdown in Beijing.

April 15, 2014 12:01 AM

China After Tiananmen: Money, Yes; Ideas, No

The New York Review of Books reprints a chapter by Perry Link in Rowena He’s Tiananmen Exiles: Voices of the Struggle for Democracy in China, in

April 1, 2014 5:45 PM

Beijing’s Propaganda Crisis & the Rise of “Self-Media”

At The New York Times, author Murong Xuecun describes the erosion of the government’s former monopoly over China’s news diet, and

March 17, 2014 1:27 PM

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