30 Years Ago: Lone Man Confronts Tanks
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the nationwide, student-led democracy movement in China,...
by Cindy | Jun 5, 2019
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the nationwide, student-led democracy movement in China,...
by Josh Rudolph | Apr 22, 2019
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
by Sophie Beach | Jun 3, 2017
Cartoonist Badiucao pays tribute to the victims of the June 4, 1989 crackdown on protesters in...
by Sophie Beach | Dec 31, 2014
As we get ready to welcome 2015, we reflect back on the year past by revisiting our most popular...
by Sophie Beach | Nov 25, 2014
At a Foreign Ministry press conference, a journalist asked spokesperson Hua Chunying about the...
by Samuel Wade | Jun 5, 2014
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...
by Samuel Wade | May 28, 2014
With the 25th anniversary of the 1989 June 4th crackdown now only a week away, The New York...
by Sophie Beach | Mar 21, 2014
In his latest cartoon, Badiucao draws inspiration from graffiti artist Banksy’s famous image...
by Samuel Wade | Aug 16, 2013
Echoes of Tiananmen have emerged this week in areas as diverse as a Beijing Cirque du Soleil...
by Samuel Wade | Jun 25, 2013
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...
by Anne Henochowicz | Jul 3, 2012
Online “poster” for the Grass-Mud Horse Festival. In honor of the “glorious holiday of the nation...
by Xiao Qiang | Jun 11, 2009
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...
by Xiao Qiang | Jun 4, 2009
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...
by Jenny Leung | Jun 3, 2009
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...