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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Friday, June 6, 2008

NYT Archive 1989: Man Against Tank

The scene of one young man against a column of tanks, which had become the symbol of the Tiananmen Massacre, was vividly described in New Y...

Thursday, June 5, 2008

NYT Archive 1989: The Day After

One day after the bloody crackdown, New York Times on June 5, 1989, put the death toll as "at least 300": Army units tightene...

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Death Toll: Tracking The Fallen

For almost two decades, the Tiananmen Mothers have been collecting and documenting the victims of the Tiananmen massacre, despite of constan...

NYT Archive 1989: Crackdown

As troops opened fire in Beijing nineteen years ago, New York Times ' series reports changed from "Upheaval in China" to ...

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Pu Zhiqiang Not Allowed To Visit Tiananmen

Nineteen years ago, when Pu Zhiqiang (浦志强) left Tiananmen Square with his fellow students under the gunshots of the advancing martial law tr...

NYT Archive 1989: Military On The Move

On the eve of the massacre, New York Times on June 3, 1989, found time to publish a profile of the student leader Wang Dan , describing him...

Monday, June 2, 2008

NYT Archive 1989: Tyson vs. Foreman

At the brink of a bloody crackdown, the Chinese government offered $25 million for a boxing match between Mike Tyson and George Foreman, re...

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