Remembering June 4th and Tiananmen Square
From Tiananmen Square, before the Hall of the People in Beijing
Twenty years ago, tens of thousands of students were camped out on Tiananmen Square in the heart of Beijing, in the final days of a democracy protest that would end with tanks and armored personnel carriers rolling onto the scene.
At my Facebook site, I’ve posted 50 or so photos that I took during the protests. The colors are slightly faded, and the negatives were dusty, but they’re worth looking at. Most have never been published.
You’ll see nothing from the violent night of June 4th. My wife brought these rolls of film out a few days before the crackdown.
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3 comments Add your comment
Yuyu Dong
June 1st, 2009
7:19 pm
Thank you so very much, Jim!! I love them. The pix bring me back to the glory days. Their ideal never been eliminated in China though CCP has been trying to do so.
Cynthia Tucker McKinney
June 2nd, 2009
11:51 am
The Chi-coms deny that it ever took place. You gotta love the commies.
Montana
June 2nd, 2009
10:42 pm
Many Chinese teenagers don’t even know this happened. I showed the infamous tank/man picture to a just-arrived undergrad. She had never seen it, didn’t quite believe it and was surprised to learn that such a thing is the icon of China for many. Probably like if the whole rest of the world knew the U.S. through the Abu Ghraib pics but we Americans never heard of it till we traveled. This is the power of the CCP to keep a nation of 1.2+ billion in ignorance. (PS my Chinese friend said young people know something vague about a “June 4 incident”, but don’t really care.)