In the U.S. we celebrate July 4th, our Independence Day, with fireworks and all manner of noise making and bright flashing ...

A Google search eventually uncovered a Xinhua News Agency page dated October 1, 2024, headlined: “Flag-raising ceremony held at Tiananmen Square to mark the 75th founding anniversary of PRC.” ...

And that’s just how the ruling Communist Party wants it. Security was tight Wednesday around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, where weeks of student-led protests shook the party in 1989. Under then-leader ...

BEIJING - Wednesday marks the 36th anniversary of China's bloody crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations in and around central Beijing's Tiananmen Square, when Chinese troops opened fire on ...

And that’s just how the ruling Communist Party wants it. Security was tight Wednesday around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, where weeks of student-led protests shook the party in 1989. Hundreds and ...

David McLoghlin, Kerry Hardie and Mary O’Malley have been shortlisted for the 2025 Pigott Poetry Prize, Ireland’s most valuable poetry award with a first prize of €12,000, and €1,000 ...

Ai Weiwei with the word "FUCK" sunburned onto his chest, Tiananmen Square, Beijing, 2000, part of the Beijing Photographs series, 1993-2003, Ai Weiwei, Chinese, b. 1957, black and white photograph.

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It can answer questions, generate poetry and prose, and write complex code (the programming language used to build everything from apps to websites).

Dao’s first book-length poem transports us through the years, countries and memories that followed his 1989 expulsion from China (his poems were recited by students in Tiananmen Square).

One of the first activists to find her work was Ding Zilin, the “Tiananmen Mother” whose 17-year-old son was killed in the Tiananmen Square Massacre. In it, she found the courage to live on.