Columnist Tienchi Martin-Liao discusses the recent indictment of four Chinese citizens for their commemorative wine, “Eight Liquor Six Four,” whose name evokes the memory of Tiananmen Square.
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In China, where official propaganda has rewritten the history of the Second Sino-Japanese War, one man’s discovery is restoring collective memory.
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China-controlled newspapers had a harsh reaction to a letter from Chinese students asking the government to break its silence on the Tiananmen Square protests.
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Confucius is innocent, but the “Confucius” brand has been humiliated and degenerated; all glamor is gone. Gone, too, is the Chinese government’s trustworthiness.
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The temporary return to daily rhythm and social order in Hong Kong does not mean that the movement is over, but may show Hong Kong’s pragmatic nature, and demonstrate that the protesters may have learned something from March’s Sunflower Student Movement in Taipei.
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Tienchi Martin-Liao recounts this year’s June 4 vigil in Hong Kong and she counters the vacillation of a journalist who is seemingly “kowtowing to his patron”, the Chinese Communist Party.
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In this original article published by PEN American Center, writer and critic of China’s Communist regime, Liao Yiwu, divulges his personal account of June 4, 1989 and the aftermath that continues to pervade Chinese society.
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