Tiananmen crackdown at 30

Here’s a roundup, from Sup China, of Tiananmen-related articles.–Kirk

Source: Sup China (6/3/19)
The Tiananmen Square crackdown, at 30 years

General reporting on Tiananmen’s legacy and how it is remembered:

• Voices from Tiananmen / SCMP
  “In the following pages, former government officials, student leaders and other eyewitnesses revisit the momentous events of spring, 1989. These personal accounts, gathered from recent video interviews, as well as memoirs, shed new light on the hope and despair left by those days, which continue to haunt China a quarter century later.”
  Also see this 15-minute SCMP documentary.

• Thirty years after Tiananmen, protesters’ goals further away than ever / Reuters

• Six questions and four articles about Tiananmen Square / ChinaFile

• Thirty years after Tiananmen: someone always remembers / by Ian Johnson in NYT (porous paywall)

• When China massacred its own people / by Nicholas Kristof in NYT (porous paywall)

• After Tiananmen, China conquers history itself / by Louisa Lim in NYT (porous paywall)

• ‘In the streets, anguish, fury and tears’ / NYT (porous paywall)
  “Read excerpts from The Times’s on-the-ground coverage of the Chinese government’s 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators.”

• ‘Sacred day’: Chinese remember Tiananmen killings by fasting / Guardian
  “Thirty years after crackdown, fasting is gaining traction to mark 4 June amid increasing censorship.”

Witness accounts from Tiananmen in 1989:

• What I learned leading the Tiananmen protests / by Wang Dan in NYT (porous paywall)

• He stayed at Tiananmen to the end. now he wonders what it meant. / NYT (porous paywall)
  “Zhou Duo helped evacuate Tiananmen Square in 1989. These days he defends the movement, but sees democracy in retreat in the West and far-off in China.”

• Thirty years on from Tiananmen: unpublished pictures of the student movement / Radio France Internationale
  “RFI’s Jan van der Made was in Beijing during the last days of the protest movement and the first days of the crackdown. His eyewitness account is illustrated here in his previously unpublished photographs.”

• Tiananmen Square 30 years on: ‘At 3am, I feared I might be killed’ / Guardian

—Lucas Niewenhuis