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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Thursday, January 31, 2008

Hu Jia is Charged

According to internet sources, activist Hu Jia has been formally charged for the crime of "inciting subversion of state power" (...

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Walking Together in Shanghai

A few years ago, when the internet fad " flash mob " was introduced in China, It went beyond the usual hippy young crowd who pract...

Friday, January 11, 2008

One Professor's "Last Lesson" on Tiananmen

Eighteen years after the Tiananmen Massacre, that historical event remains to be one of the biggest taboo in China. Even the official versio...

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Fang Lizhi Reminiscences the Early Years of USTC

This year, 2008, will mark the 50th anniversary of the founding of University of Science and Technology of China (USTC, 科大). In planning fo...

Sunday, January 6, 2008

The College Entrance Exam of 1977

The New York Times published an interesting article today commemorating the college entrance exam of 1977 in China. Thirty years ago, the ...

1989: The Year of Anniversaries

The fact that 1989 became the year of the biggest student demonstrations was not entirely coincidental. It was a conspicuous year for China....

Tuesday, January 1, 2008

New Year's Day, 1987

Two years before 1989, the biggest and also strangest student protest at Tiananmen Square in modern China occurred in a manner that surprise...

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