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on June 5, 2014
A volunteer capture a wild swan they suspect has been poisoned.
Accel’s Breyer to Partner With Venture Capital Firm in China
on June 5, 2014
James Breyer, the venture capitalist who made a fortune with an early bet on Facebook, is putting some of his winnings to work in partnership with Beijing-based IDG Capital to invest in tech start-ups.
The Astrophysicist of Tiananmen
on June 5, 2014
Fang Lizhi, the prominent astrophysicist, was incredulous when, In January 1987, when Deng Xiaoping launched the slogan “modernization with Chinese characteristics.”
A Time-Lapse Map of Protests Sweeping China in 1989
The ‘Beijing Spring’ Was Never Just About Beijing
on June 5, 2014
Twenty-five years ago in the southern Chinese province of Hunan, a group of small-town high school students listening to shortwave radio heard news of a deadly crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators nearly 1,000 miles away in the capital of Beijing. Although it was late at night and pouring rain, they grabbed metal washbasins and took to the streets, clanging the pots and shouting, "There's been a massacre!" For the next two days, they demonstrated, with factory workers joining their ranks. They handed out fliers and hung a banner in front of the town cinema showing the official government tally (later revised downwards): "300 dead, 7,000 wounded."
China Escalates Its War on American Tech Firms
on June 5, 2014
The Chinese government, angered by Washington's charge that Beijing engages in cyberspying, is looking for some payback.
Exiled Tiananmen Leader Slips into China
on June 5, 2014
Zhou Fengsuo, 47, a student leader in 1989, spent two days in the capital—visiting Tiananmen Square and a detention center where his friends are being held—before the authorities caught him on June 3.
The Ghosts of Tiananmen Square
on June 5, 2014
Every spring, an old friend of mine named Xu Jue makes a trip to the Babaoshan cemetery in the western suburbs of Beijing to lay flowers on the tombs of her dead son and husband. She always plans her visit for April 5, which is the holiday of Pure Brightness, or Qingming.
Never Before Seen Tiananmen Square Photos Found in Shoebox
on June 4, 2014
I was searching through my parents’ photos for a piece I was writing on Tiananmen Square and my father, when I stumbled across two rolls of negatives that appeared to be from the 1989 student democracy protests in Tiananmen Square.
Scientists Warn Against China’s Plan to Flatten Over 700 Mountains
on June 4, 2014
Environmental consequences of removing hills to create more land for cities not considered, academics say in Nature paper.
Where the Flame Still Burns
on June 4, 2014
Hong Kong is the only place on Chinese soil where large public commemorations of the Tiananmen massacre take place; elsewhere memorials of the June 4th crackdown remain strictly forbidden.