Yet as Tiananmen Square also shows, powerful as the Chinese Communist Party may be, it can never eradicate the natural human desire for liberty. Start your day with Reason .

Tiananmen Square: A Novel, by Lai Wen (Spiegel & Grau, 528 pp., $19.80). True to life, Lai Wen’s thrilling new novel, Tiananmen Square, opens its final act with the death, on April 15, 1989, of Hu ...

Song Lin’s poem, translated by Dong Li, primarily uses interesting images to articulate the feelings of a “divided self” and a sense of being everywhere and nowhere at once. The poet left ...

China reprised its annual crackdown on people marking the 1989 pro-democracy Tiananmen Square massacre on Sunday by closing off access to the site in Beijing and detaining 32 people in Hong Kong. A… ...

BEIJING — It was my second attempt in as many days to visit Tiananmen Square, and it wasn't looking good. When I tried the day before, a guard said I required an online appointment — and, no ...

The Tiananmen Square Massacre of 1989 is believed to have taken as many as 10,000 Chinese lives. The massacre took place amidst student protests expressing their disgruntlement over the slow ...

In the spring of 1989, students congregated at the Tiananmen Square in Beijing demanding a more democratic government. A protest in Tiananmen – “Gate of Heavenly Peace” – had a precedent ...