Standoff At Tiananmen

How Chinese Students Shocked the World with a Magnificent Movement for Democracy and Liberty that Ended in the Tragic Tiananmen Massacre in 1989.

Relive the history with this blog and my book, "Standoff at Tiananmen", a narrative history of the movement.

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Showing posts with label Bao Tong (鲍彤). Show all posts

Showing posts with label Bao Tong (鲍彤). Show all posts

Thursday, December 10, 2009

"Charter of 08" Co-signers Pledge to Share Responsibility

As Liu Xiaobo is facing trial for his role in initiating the "Charter of 08", some of his fellow co-signers of that document issu...

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Book Review: Zhao Ziyang Falls Short in Telling His Story

On the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of Tiananmen Massacre, the book Prisoner of the State, the Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziya...

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

This Day in 1989: May 19, Zhao Ziyang Makes Farewell, Li Peng Announces Martial Law

Before dawn of May 19, 1989, in the darkness, General Secretary Zhao Ziyang showed up on the edge of Tiananmen Square unexpectedly. The e...

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Zhao Ziyang Speaks, Posthumously.

With much media fanfare, Simon & Schuster just released a memoir of the late Zhao Ziyang, who was acutally the General Secretary at the...

Thursday, March 6, 2008

At the Cusp of the Great Reform

The Third Plenum of the Eleventh CCP Congress (十一届三中全会) was held on December 18, 1978. This meeting is widely regarded as the defining miles...

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