After the democracy protests were crushed in 1989, many thought China would turn inward. Instead, a million Chinese citizens moved to Africa. Howard French discusses his book China's Second Continent.
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Blocked on Weibo is one of the most interesting websites on the internet: A list that explains the search terms that are censored on China’s massive microblogging site Weibo.
Today, the United States is asking of the Chinese government what we have asked for 25 years: to provide the fullest possible accounting of the Tiananmen events and to stop retribution against those who wish to remember them.
A quarter century after democracy protests ended in bloodshed, Chinese still clamor for clean government and courts.
Cardinal Joseph Zen of the Catholic Church, a longtime advocate of greater democracy in Hong Kong and mainland China, attended the annual candlelight vigil for Tiananmen Square victims for the first time in Hong Kong on Wednesday evening.
Jessica Beinecke is a bubbly blonde blogger fluent in Mandarin. She teaches American slang and culture to a Chinese fan-base aged 15 to 30. Her daily online web shows have garnered a total of over 40 million video views and over 400 million social media impressions.
Beinecke recently launched a new cross-cultural platform teaching Chinese slang to American students called Crazy Fresh Chinese, and American slang to Chinese students called BaiJie LaLaLa.
The 100,000 Strong Foundation is the founding partner of Crazy Fresh Chinese, focused on encouraging students across the country to both learn Mandarin and study in China.
Jessica’s work was featured and praised by Secretary John Kerry at last November’s U.S.-China Dialogue on People-to-People Exchange in D.C. (see here at 17:10 mark).
WaPo, PBS, Yahoo, The Atlantic, PBS, WSJ, and CNN have featured her accomplishments in articles and feature stories.
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Barack Obama reminds Poles that while they voted for democracy twenty-five years ago this day, China crushed pro-democracy protests in Beijing's Tiananmen Square.
