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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Saturday, May 31, 2008

NYT Archive 1989: The Beginning Of The End

The crackdown started several days before the massacre. Just as in the case of the massacre itself, it was not the students in the Tiananmen...

Friday, May 30, 2008

NYT Archive 1989: Goddess of Democracy

May 30, 1989, was supposed to be the date that students withdrew from Tiananmen Square and back to their campuses. But that plan did not sur...

Thursday, May 29, 2008

NYT Archive 1989: Global Demonstration

Sunday, May 28, 1989, was designated for a global demonstration for democracy in China. Chinese students and other ethnic Chinese demonstrat...

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

NYT Archive 1989: Students Talk About Withdrawing

On May 28, 1989, ninth day of the martial law, New York Times reported that students seemed to be ready to withdraw from Tiananmen Square :...

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Tiananmen Mothers Have Their Own Web Site

Just in time for the coming 19th anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre, the Tiananmen Mothers finally have their own web presence at: htt...

NYT Archive 1989: Threat of a Crackdown

As the standoff at Tiananmen continued, New York Times reported on May 27, 1989, that signs of a coming crackdown was intensifying. There ...

Monday, May 26, 2008

Wang Dan Graudates From Harvard

It took much longer than he thought, but Wang Dan finally graduates from Harvard University with a Ph. D. degree in History and East Asian L...

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