Wu'er Kaixi helped lead the student protests in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989 and currently serves as a political commentator and democracy activist in Taiwan.

For most Chinese, the 36th anniversary of a bloody crackdown that ended pro-democracy protests in China has passed like any other weekday. And that’s just how the ruling Communist Party wants it.

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 .

The mention of Tiananmen Square is greeted with a mix of silence and confusion in the local Chinese-American community, a kind of third rail better left untouched in discussions of the Communist ...

The world’s first and only permanent museum dedicated to China’s Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 will shutter by the end of the year, with organizers citing political reasons for the closure ...

A Hong Kong student has been sentenced to prison over a banner commemorating the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Zeng Yuxuan, 23, a law student at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, was ...

It also makes better anime art than DALL-E 2 or other Western image-making AIs. But there are many things—like Tiananmen Square, the country’s second-largest city square and a symbolic ...

Checkpoints and rows of police vehicles lined roads leading to Beijing’s Tiananmen Square Tuesday as China heightened security on the 35th anniversary of the bloody crackdown on pro-democracy ...

This revelation inspired Li to create the art on display at an exhibition he titled Ask Your Ma About ‘89, currently at the Residency Art Gallery in Inglewood through January 20, 2024. It features 13 ...

In 1989, Li helped organize the hunger strike at Tiananmen Square, and his impromptu wedding there galvanized the crowd. With the help of Hong Kong activists, Li escaped to the British colony.

New York City – When Zhou Fengsuo last saw the mimeograph machine, he was running for his life as the tanks rolled into Tiananmen Square in Beijing in June 1989. For weeks before that night of ...