30 Years Ago: Lone Man Confronts Tanks
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the nationwide, student-led democracy movement in China,...
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LatestMinitrue: Delete All Traces of “Tank Man” Leica Ad
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Badiucao: Tiananmen Traffic Control
Cartoonist Badiucao pays tribute to the victims of the June 4, 1989 crackdown on protesters in...
CDT’s Top Posts of 2014
As we get ready to welcome 2015, we reflect back on the year past by revisiting our most popular...
Ferguson: “No Such Thing as Perfection” in Human Rights
At a Foreign Ministry press conference, a journalist asked spokesperson Hua Chunying about the...
Tiananmen 25: Tight Controls On Square and Online
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...
Tiananmen Anniversary Prompts Campaign of Silence
With the 25th anniversary of the 1989 June 4th crackdown now only a week away, The New York...
Badiucao (巴丢草): Daily Patrol
In his latest cartoon, Badiucao draws inspiration from graffiti artist Banksy’s famous image...
Echoes of June 4th, from Zhu Rongji to Michael Jackson
Echoes of Tiananmen have emerged this week in areas as diverse as a Beijing Cirque du Soleil...
A Conversation with ‘Tank Man’ Photographer
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...
Album: First Annual Grass-Mud Horse Festival
Online “poster” for the Grass-Mud Horse Festival. In honor of the “glorious holiday of the nation...
Personal History: A June Deserter
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...
Photo: Behind the Scenes – A New Angle on Tank Man
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...
Behind the Scenes: Tank Man of Tiananmen
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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