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1989-nián chūn xià zhījiāo de zhèngzhì fēngbō: Wade–Giles: 1989-nien 2 chʻun 1 hsia 4 chih 1-chiao 1 te 0 cheng 4-chih 4 feng 1-po 1: IPA [í.tɕjòʊ.pá.tɕjòʊ.njɛ̌n ʈʂʰwə́n ɕjâ ʈʂɻ̩́.tɕjáʊ tɤ ʈʂə̂ŋ] Wu; Romanization: 1989-ni tshen-ghô tsy-jiau di tsen-tsy fhon-bo: Yue: Cantonese; Yale Romanization
The 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre were a turning point for many Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials, who were subjected to a purge that started after June 4, 1989. The purge covered top-level government figures down to local officials, and included CCP General Secretary Zhao Ziyang and his associates. [1]
Due to the severe censorship, most of the younger generation in China, such as Chinese university students, are totally ignorant of the protests in 1989 and the government crackdown on 4 June 1989. Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi , caricatured this by saying that young Chinese thought that ' Tank Man ' was ...
During the period prior to martial law, the Chinese were less dependent on foreign media broadcasts as demonstrated by a rise in newspapers sales and an increase in television and radio audiences. [20] The VOA, among other sources, used official Chinese news media as a listed source of information on 25% of its stories during the protests. [21]
Chinese scholars Liu Liming and Sheng Qiwen state that censorship helps to protect national information security as well as prevent in the disclosure and infringement of any important national or personal information. [21] Song Minlei points out that censorship is conducive to the maintenance of China's "ideological security."
In just one shot, the photographer, Jeff Widener, managed to convey a society struggling between the freedoms of individual citizens and the heavy hand of the Chinese militarized state. It’s ...
Taiwan President Lai Ching-te on Tuesday said he will work hard to make historical memory last forever and reach out to everyone who cares about Chinese democracy, on the 35th anniversary of the ...
The 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre were the first of their type shown in detail on Western television. [1] The Chinese government's response was denounced, particularly by Western governments and media. [2] Criticism came from both Western and Eastern Europe, North America, Australia and some east Asian and Latin American countries.