Standoff At Tiananmen

 Liu Weiguo entered Peking University in 1979 as a freshman, majoring in Chinese Language and Literature. He was active on campus, serving as student body President in the department as well as ...

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Premier Li Peng was undoubtedly the No. 1 target during the entire 1989 Chinese student movement. Li Peng was born in 1928. He was an offspring of an earlier Communist Party underground and mar...

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In 1989, Zhang Jian was a freshman at Beijing Sports College, barely 18. He had of course participated in the early protests and demonstrations along with his fellow classmates. Zhang Jian, i...

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In the 1980s, the title of a government spokesperson was still a new curiosity. As such, Yuan Mu was a virtual unknown at the beginning of 1989 but he eventually came to personify the role of Spo...

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George H. W. Bush became the 41st President of the United States on January 20, 1989. He had been the Vice President under President Ronald Reagan for eight years already. In his previous politic...

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In the morning of June 28, 1989, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher met with five Chinese student representatives in her office at No. 10 Downing Street. At that time, there were about 3,500 Chines...

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Pictures of 1989

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Pictures of 1989

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May 29, 1989, Hong Kong student delegation meet with Beijing student leaders. Lin Yaoqiang at left, Wuer Kaixi in the corner. May 29, 1989, Hong Kong student delegation meet with Beijing s...

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Born in 1963, Yu Zhijian had graduated from a teaching college in Hunan for five years by 1989. He was initially given jobs teaching at local elementary and middle schools. But he soon grew tired...

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Xu Jiatun was already 73 in 1989. He had been the head of the Xinhua Press Agency in Hong Kong, the de facto ambassador from mainland, for six years. He was an old and high-ranked Communist a...

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On June 25, 1990, after more than a year of hiding in the US Embassy, Fang Lizhi and Li Shuxian finally obtained permission from the Chinese government to leave the country. The boarded a plane ...

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Around 1am of June 4, 1990, about two thousands students and teachers gathered spontaneously in the campus of Peking University and marched to commemorate the one-year anniversary of Tiananmen Ma...

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On June 3, 1990, an officially estimated a hundred thousand residents marched, despite pouring rain, in Hong Kong to mark the one-year anniversary of Tiananmen Massacre. The demonstration was org...

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Born in 1925, Li Honglin joined the Communist revolution in its early stage. In the 1950s, he began working at Party Central, focusing on theoretical research. During the 1980s, his name frequent...

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On June 2, 1990, Hou Dejian, Zhou Dou, and Gao Xin were detained by police ahead of a press conference they had planned for the one-year anniversary of their hunger strike. They spent three wee...

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On June 24, 1989, the Chinese Communist Party completed its top-level leadership reshuffle at the conclusion of its 13th Congress, 4th plenary session. Top officials sacked for sympathizing wit...

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On June 1, 1991, Chinese government announced that three high-level officials, previously stripped their positions for their sympathy of 1989 student movement, had been assigned to new official ...

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On May 25, 1990, an old boat by the name of "Goddess of Democracy" was auctioned off in Taiwan's Keelong Port, marking the end of a project by oversea democracy movement to broadcast directly to ...

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On May 24, 1990, American President Bush announced that, after a long deliberation, he had decided to extend the "Most Favored Nation" trade status. The Most Favored Nation (MFN), later rename...

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On May 18, 1990, American Broadcasting Company (ABC) broadcast an interview of Jiang Zemin by reporter Barbara Walters. This was the first interview of the new General Secretary by a western repo...

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On May 10, 1990, Chinese government announced that 211 people arrested for participating in the 1989 movement were released without prison sentences. These include intellectuals such as Dai Qing,...

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On January 5, 1991, Beijing Intermediate People's Court announced sentences for seven 1989 movement leaders: Wang Youcai: 4 years Zhang Ming: 3 years Ma Shaofang: 3 years Kong Xianfeng: 3 years...

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On January 27, 1991, Beijing Intermediate People's Court handed down a series of sentences to 1989 movement leaders: Ren Wanding: 7 years Bao Zunxin: 5 years Wang Dan: 4 years Guo Haifeng: 4 ye...

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On March 4, 1991, Guangdong Province Intermediate People's Court sentenced Lo Hoi-sing (罗海星) and Lai Pui-shing (黎沛成) to five years and Li Lung-hing (李龙庆) to four years. The thr...

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