An extraordinarily sycophantic question posed in a Shanghai math exam is CDT’s quote of the day: “Thus far, Volumes One, Two, Three, and Four of ‘Xi Jinping’s The Governance of China’ have been published. If these four volumes...
The sight of a lone man standing before a row of tanks in Beijing is perhaps the most enduring image to emerge from the Tiananmen Protests of 1989. Photographs taken on June 5 of that year—one day after PLA troops crushed the...
May 10, 2023 marked the second anniversary of the detention of program-think (Biānchéng suíxiǎng, 编程随想), an incisive and influential blogger who for twelve years managed to maintain his anonymity while maintaining a prolific...
33 years have passed since the People’s Liberation Army violently crushed pro-democracy demonstrations in Beijing and elsewhere. Memories of the 1989 movement have been suppressed by a similarly aggressive state-directed...
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the nationwide, student-led democracy movement in China,...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Cartoonist Badiucao pays tribute to the victims of the June 4, 1989 crackdown on protesters in...
As we get ready to welcome 2015, we reflect back on the year past by revisiting our most popular...
At a Foreign Ministry press conference, a journalist asked spokesperson Hua Chunying about the...
The weeks leading up to the 25th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown on Wednesday were marked by an unprecedented campaign of detentions, house arrests, forced or restricted travel, intimidation and surveillance. Those...
With the 25th anniversary of the 1989 June 4th crackdown now only a week away, The New York...
In his latest cartoon, Badiucao draws inspiration from graffiti artist Banksy’s famous image...
Echoes of Tiananmen have emerged this week in areas as diverse as a Beijing Cirque du Soleil...
Petapixel’s Eric Calouro talks to AP photojournalist Jeff Widener, whose iconic and sometimes parodied ‘Tank Man’ photograph has, he says, “been a blessing and a curse”: Basically it’s a lucky shot...
Online “poster” for the Grass-Mud Horse Festival. In honor of the “glorious holiday of the nation...
In the run-up to last’s week’s 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre, the following essay quietly circulated in the Chinese blogosphere, written by an anonymous author calling himself Deserter. Via...
From the New York Times blog: Terril Jones had only shown the photograph to friends. While working as a reporter in Beijing during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, he shot many photographs and recorded several hours of...
As the June 4th Tiananmen demonstrations approaches, several stories have reappeared about the Tank Man. The New York Times documents and reviews the photos taken of the “Tank Man” that have become iconic outside of...
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