Despite near absolute censorship of any mention of the Tiananmen Massacre within China, memories of June Fourth still persist. On the 35th anniversary of the 1989 student movement’s suppression, a number of people who...
Liu Xiaobo (1955-2017) is a monumental figure in modern Chinese history. The 2010 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate died in custody in a Shenyang hospital in 2017 while being treated for liver cancer. A prolific writer, Liu first rose...
This is the full transcript, edited lightly for grammar and clarity, of an interview with Jeremy Brown, a historian at Simon Fraser University, on his book “June Fourth: The Tiananmen Protests and Beijing Massacre of...
In China, 2021 has been a year for the history books or, more precisely, their revision. In March, the launch of a hotline to report “historical nihilism” presaged a broader campaign against challenges to the Party’s version of...
As the 32nd anniversary of the violent military crackdown on protesters in Beijing and elsewhere throughout China approached, the government continued to clamp down hard on any potential commemorations or public acknowledgement...
In 2020, CDT Chinese editors launched the CDT Censorship Digest series. The series will collect and quote from news and online speech that was censored by Chinese authorities during the previous month, as well as summarize...
On the 31st anniversary of the June 4, 1989 military crackdown around Tiananmen Square, much of the world was focused on other topics, notably the COVID-19 pandemic and anti-racism protests in the United States. But within...
This post was co-authored with Samuel Wade. The approach of the 30th anniversary of the 1989...
CDT is expanding its wiki beyond the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon to include short biographies of...
In the run-up to the 27th anniversary of the June 4, 1989 military crackdown on protesters in...
On Mother’s Day, Badiucao honors the Tiananmen Mothers, a loose-knit group of parents who...
On this 26th anniversary of the June 4, 1989 military crackdown on protesters in the vicinity of...
Yet more detentions have been added to the dozens already carried out ahead of the 25th...
Sanjiang Church in Wenzhou was demolished on Monday night after intense resistance from Chinese...
Twenty-four years after army troops rolled into the streets of Beijing and opened fire on protesters, the government is still working to erase the history of 1989, while activists are struggling to keep memories alive. In the...
Ya Weilin, the 73-year-old father of a man shot in the head during the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown, hanged himself in Beijing last week in protest at the government’s failure to recognise the issue. From the Associated Press:...
As the conflict between Google and the Chinese government continues without resolution, authorities have stepped up their warning to the company by reminding its web partners that they must continue with censorship even if...
I cross-posted this essay on the Huffington Post today: Rebuilding China’s Moral Foundation by Telling the Truth About Tiananmen by Xiao Qiang Twenty years ago, the world watched as Chinese people stood up for freedom, and...
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