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Severed calls to Tiananmen Mothers: for my own good?

News coverage of the ballyhooed 20th Tiananmen Square massacre anniversary this month reminds me of covering earlier, lesser anniversaries.Around June 4 every year while living in Beijing I'd try to reach Ding Zilin, a leader in the Tiananmen Mothers... ...full story at Laowiseass

from Laowiseass on Mon, Jun 08 2009

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04 Jun 08 visit A Dark Anniversary  »  China Journal Nineteen years after the government’s crackdown on the Tiananmen Square democracy movement, today’s WSJ looks at the generation gap between young people in China now and then. Ding Zilin (AP photo) Meanwhile, Ding Zilin is still waiting...
05 Jun 07 visit Someone DIDN'T forget.....  »  Peking Duck China investigates pro-Tiananmen advert Chinese authorities are investigating how an advertisement saluting mothers of students killed in the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown found its way into a newspaper in southwest China. The massacre is still taboo...

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