Breaking the Tiananmen tabooAn official Beijing newspaper made a quiet but unprecented mention of the Tiananmen Square Massacre yesterday. Why did they do it and — more importantly — why were they allowed to?
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China’s fight for freedom, twenty years on
China will one day have to deal with Tiananmen, but it’s impossible to say how long that might take.
The Tiananmen taboo
Banned Chinese novelist Ma Jian was at the Tiananmen protests. He returns to Beijing 20 years later to find a country desperate to erase all memories of the incident.
20 years on, life after Tiananmen
NPR speak to three student leaders involved in the Tiananmen protests. Twenty years on, their lives have followed three very different paths.
The wound that hasn’t healed
Tiananmen survivors look back on the day China’s heart froze.
Covering Tiananmen: a journalist looks back
Press coverage of violence in Tiananmen Square have shaped foriegn perceptions of China for over two decades. The BBC’s then-Beijing correspondant James Miles reflects back on the difficulties of the assignment.
Video of the Day: Do you remember Tiananmen?
Footage and eyewitness accounts from Tiananmen Square in 1989, from Frontline’s ‘The Tank Man’.
Tiananmen and democracy
The democratic spirit of the students who demonstrated and died in Tiananmen Square has weakened — but it isn’t dead.
CNN on Tiananmen
CNN reporters look back on a watershed moment for the network.
Historic fortnight: six world-changing anniversaries
Starting with the Tiananmen Square massacre remembrance on June 4, the next two weeks are heavy on history-altering events.
Spinning for Rupert’s WSJ: Trust me, I’m a journalist
How long does it take to count the Bancroft family votes on Murdoching the Wall Street Journal? The silence since the alleged 7am deadline passed might suggest it was a not-quite-dead line despite the apparent rejection of Rupert’s Dow Jones bid. A News Corp spokesman is being quoted everywhere as saying it’s highly unlikely Murdoch will proceed with the bid without more support from the controlling family.
