Jailed activist Liu Xiaobo was a participant in the 1989 pro-democracy movement. Each year, he writes an elegy for the martyrs of the Tiananmen Square massacre.

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 .

Liao Yiwu was in his early 30s when he was arrested for writing and performing a poem about the brutality of the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989. His poem -- simply called "Massacre" -- was an ...

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 ...

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 ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan — At an exhibit hall in central Taipei, artists set up sculptures, churches held live-streamed prayer sessions, and activists read poems at a vigil near the president’s office ...

There were poems, songs and photos of Tiananmen Square during happier times. Image. At the vigil in Hong Kong. Organizers estimated that more than 180,000 people attended.

Jailed activist Liu Xiaobo was a participant in the 1989 pro-democracy movement. Each year, he writes an elegy for the martyrs of the Tiananmen Square massacre.