Busy was the Chinese Communist Party in the first few days after it brutally suppressed pro-democracy demonstrators on June 4, 1989. It produced a series of horrifying photos and a photo book to justify its brutal suppression.
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Tiananmen – The Sunday Times Magazine, 1989
Four months after the massacre, as the Communist regimes in Eastern Europe also looking increasingly fragile, the Sunday Times magazine devoted 15 pages to the tragedy and analysed its effect on China’s future.
The New China by Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1959
In 1958, LIFE asked Henri Cartier-Bresson to return to China, a country he last covered in at the outbreak of the Communist takeover in 1949. Cartier-Bresson was largely sympathetic to the Communist cause and was mostly embedded on a guided tour. While his photographs do not present a critique of Communism, he nonetheless witnessed the beginnings of the disastrous Great Leap Forward.
Uncanny China by Rolf Gilhausen, 1958-59
Starting in December 27, 1958, Stern magazine in Germany started publishing a series of articles and photos on China that would eventually cover nearly 70 pages of the magazine.
Tiananmen Square by Patrick Zachmann, 1989
Patrick Zachmann was one of the very first foreign photographers to be in Beijing in 1989, having arrived there coincidentally just before the protests began.
Killing the Chickens, 1989
Hundreds were killed in show trials and summary justice executions across China following the crackdown at Tiananmen Square on 4 June 1989.
Falun Gong Protests, 1999
Falun Gong protests in April 1999 symbolized much that came before and much that came […]
Jiang Zemin (1926 – 2022)
Jiang Zemin, a president and a meme, died this week, aged 96. . On “60 […]
Shanghai by Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1949
Henri Cartier-Bresson spent ten months in China in 1949. LIFE published 26 photos of his in a special report (A Last Look at Peiping).
Hu Jintao is Removed
Kremlinology, they used to call it. Analysis of an opaque obscurantist state, using indirect clues: […]