Thousands in Hong Kong attended the annual vigil today memorializing the 31st anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown. Prior to the vigil, the police had announced a ban on public gatherings due to COVID-19, but in the end they did not enforce that ban.
Pictured: The Uyghur student activist Örkesh, better known in English-language media as Wu’er Kaixi, raises his arms with fellow protesters in Beijing in 1989. Protests...
Photo by Jeff Widener, June 5, 1989 On the night of June 3, 1989, China invaded its own capital with tanks and soldiers, and by...
Tomorrow is the 30th anniversary of the People’s Liberation Army opening fire on protesters in central Beijing. This week’s column, which considers one of the...
“Do you know how many bends are on the Yellow River?” belts the singer above, in Shaanxi dialect, to begin the folk tune “99 Bends...
A somewhat experimental piece from Hong Kong director Shu Kei, as free-wheeling as it is far-flung, Sunless Days combines archival footage with interviews, first-person narration, and other...
Bilibili and AcFun block real-time commenting feature until June 6
It’s the last Thursday of the month, which means it’s quiz time! Last month was a quiz in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the May...
Some good reporting, essays, and reflections to read about the legacy of the 1989 Tiananmen protests, and the bloody crackdown that ensued: 30 Years After...