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Hong Kong Student Sentenced to Prison for Tiananmen Monument Banner
Zeng Yuxuan was arrested in June over a banner of the recently removed “Pillar of Shame” monument commemorating the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
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Hong Kong’s Only Tiananmen Massacre Memorial Faces Removal
There is an official ban against the public mourning of Tiananmen Square victims in Hong Kong and mainland China.
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Artists Use Liquor Bottles and Inflatable Tanks to Highlight the Pain of Tiananmen Square Protests
30 years later, suggestive liquor bottles and inflatable military tanks capture the fraught response to the legacy of civil disobedience in China and Taiwan.
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Photographing the Bloody Cost of Resistance
Between 1968 and 1981, when he turned 13, Khiang H. Hei was at or near the epicenter of several catastrophic historical events reverberating across Southeast Asia.
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Leica Distances Itself From an Ad Invoking the Tiananmen Square Massacre
After the video ad angered Chinese social media users, Lecia denied commissioning it. However, ad creators say they developed the film with Leica representatives.
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Lawsuit Forces Closure of Only Museum Devoted to Tiananmen Square Protests
The world's first and only permanent museum dedicated to China's Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 will shutter by the end of the year, with organizers citing political reasons for the closure.
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Creative Dissidents Commemorate 25th Anniversary of Tiananmen Square Massacre
Today marks the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, and many, including one of China's most famous dissidents, Ai Weiwei, are commemorating the occasion with personal protests.