There have been many efforts during the last month, on this site and elsewhere, to bring history into discussions of the twentieth anniversary of June 4th (particularly via allusions the May 4th Movement of 1919), just as a year ago there were many... ...full story at China Beat
from China Beat on Mon, Jun 08 2009
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Today in History for Wednesday, June 4th »
YouTube video Today in HistoryToday in History for Wednesday, June 4thToday in History for Wednesday, June 4thThe Associated PressHighlights of this day in history: Chinese troops crush a pro-democracy movement in Beijing's Tiananmen Square; World War II's Battle of... |
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A recollection of the 1989 student movement in Tianjin » Blogging For China admin’s note: This year is the 20th anniversary of the 1989 student movement. No matter what your view on this subject is, what happened 20 years ago is no doubt an important piece of Chinese history. As Zhu Rongji, former Chinese premier minister,... |
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China Journal Wrap: Tiananmen Anniversary, A Visit to Hummer’s Bidder » China Journal On the twentieth anniversary of the military crackdown on the Tiananmen Square democracy movement, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called on China to provide an accounting of the number of civilians killed in the 1989 demonstrations and to free... |
| 04 May 09 |
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Wen Jiabao dines with university graduates » Danwei Jinan TimesMay 4, 2009 Today is National Youth Day, an anniversary established by the Chinese government in 1949 to commemorate the May Fourth Movement in 1919. The political movement involved massive nationwide demonstrations and protests and has been... |
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China: Ninetieth anniversary of 05/04 Movement » Global Voices C. Custer at ChinaGeeks has posted on the context of the May Fourth Movement: “If the West was a lighted room, certainly many Chinese found the bulb growing dimmer as they entered it in the first part of the twentieth century.” |
| 01 May 09 |
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June 4, 1989 anniversary: 20 years of tired clichés » Laowiseass Snapshot of Tiananmen Square on June 4, 2004: Foreigner laughs with friendly local, life goes on.Bloodshed, massacre, crackdown and cover-up. We’ll hear those words in the approach to the twenty-year anniversary of whatever happened on Tiananmen Square ... |
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