As China Booms, So Does Popular Unrest
on June 4, 2014
In the quarter-century since the crackdown in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, China's economy has thrived and presented the world with an historic milestone. But at what cost to its people?
In Pictures, Remembering the Tiananmen Square Massacre
on June 4, 2014
Twenty-five years ago on Wednesday, the Chinese government, acting under martial law, deployed 200,000 troops into Beijing's Tiananmen Square.
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on June 4, 2014
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Tiananmen at Twenty-Five: "Victory Over Memory"
on June 4, 2014
Today, technology and globalism are prying open the lives of China’s people. But, in matters of politics and history, the Party is determined to silence even the “few flies” that Deng Xiaoping once described as a bearable side effect of an open window to the world.
Hong Kong Recalls Tiananmen Killings, China Muffles Dissent
on June 4, 2014
Tens of thousands of people held a candlelight vigil in Hong Kong to mark the bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters 25 years ago in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, while mainland China authorities sought to whitewash the event.
Ying Chan
on June 4, 2014
Ying Chan is a writer, educator, and China media expert, and the Founding Director of the Journalism and Media Studies Centre at the University of Hong Kong (HKU). As an academic unit, the JMSC offers undergraduate and professional graduate in journalism and M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees.
She was also the Founding Dean (2003-2011) of the journalism school at Shantou University in China.
Prior to joining HKU in 1998, she spent 23 years in New York City working as a journalist, and has reported for the New York Daily News, NBC News, and Chinese language papers. She is a board member of the Media Development Investment Fund, an investment fund for independent media worldwide, and a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Informed Societies. She has co-edited four books on China’s media.
Stuart Franklin: How I Photographed Tiananmen Square and 'Tank Man'
on June 3, 2014
The Magnum photographer tells his story of the 1989 protests, from peaceful demonstration to bloody crackdown, the iconic 'tank man' – and how hamburgers gave him his big break.
Marking 25th Anniversary of China's Tiananmen Square Takes Creativity
on June 3, 2014
Every year, political activists try to commemorate those who died in the 1989 crackdown at Tiananmen Square, and the Chinese government tries to prevent them, a cat-and-mouse game as classic as "Tom and Jerry."
A Day to Remember/A Day Forgotten
on June 3, 2014
China’s suppression of the memory of the June 4 massacre of demonstrators in Beijing in 1989 is a perennial and important subject of commentary. Much written on the subject is excellent, but little I’ve seen describes repressed memory in action as powerfully or succinctly as this 13-minute film, which was shot in 2005 in Beijing on the campus of Peking University and in Tiananmen Square.
China’s Maritime Provocations
on June 3, 2014
Last weekend I attended the Shangri-La Dialogue, an annual gathering of Asian, European, and American defense and military officials and strategic experts in Singapore hosted by the London International Institute of Strategic Studies. China sent a large and well-disciplined contingent of People’s Liberation Army officers, government officials, and think tank experts who were instructed what to say in the various sessions.
