With so many references to Tiananmen showing up in the news, we wanted to take a quick break from our time away to recommend a couple of the best uses of 1989 analogies (if we weren't on hiatus, we'd also look at some of the worst, and there have been... ...full story at China Beat
from China Beat on Sun, Jun 21 2009
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| 17 Apr 08 |
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Tiananmen Square Massacre Video »
YouTube video The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, widely known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre, in China referred to as the June Fourth Incident to avoid confusion with the two other Tiananmen Square protests and as an act of official censorship, were a series of... |
| 27 Apr 09 |
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Tiananmen Moon: Beida Summit » China Beat Philip J Cunningham marched with student protesters in 1989 at Tiananmen Square and conducted interviews with student activists for BBC and ABC news. His memoir of that time, Tiananmen Moon; Inside the Chinese Student Uprising in 1989, will be published... |
| 04 Jun 09 |
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Recalling the spirit of Tiananmen » NBC World Blog By George Lewis, NBC News Correspondent I was thinking, on my last visit to China, how much has changed since I first went there in 1989 to cover the events surrounding the student “democracy movement” in Tiananmen Square. Today, you... |
| 10 Nov 09 |
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1989, a ripple effect from Tiananmen to Checkpoint Charlie? » Peking Duck Foreign Policy offers an interesting if somewhat debatable book excerpt on the role the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations played in influencing soon-to-follow demonstrations in Europe, where less than six months after the crackdown in Beijing the... |
| 11 Oct 09 |
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One Man's Tiananmen » People's Daily When people think about Tiananmen, different things come to mind. For most Chinese, it is a Beijing landmark, the heart of China. For Yan Shujun, Tiananmen is an addiction. "I'm obsessed with collecting items related to Tiananmen," says... |
| 03 Jun 09 |
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A brief history of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre » angrychineseblogger In June 1989 the Mainland Chinese government sent in tanks and troops to crush peaceful demonstrators who had gathered in Tiananmen Square, Beijing. And every years since it has done it's level best to prevent the Chinese people from discussing a |