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Tag: China
The Tank Man by Stuart Franklin, 1989
June 5th is upon us again. In 1989, the Communist government in Beijing marred the […]
Portrait of the Artist as A Communist Tyrant
When the Communists first seized power in February 1949, they replaced Chiang Kai-shek not only literally but also on the Tiananmen. The first version of the iconic Mao was a hastily sketched portrait that stood barely a meter tall.
The Other 1989
As Nicholas Kristof wrote in the New York Times, there is something very tragic about […]
The Good Soldier Lei Feng
In 1962, an unheralded conscript was killed in Fushun, northeastern China. Lei Feng was just […]
An Execution in China
Arriving to China in the late 1850s, William Saunders was the first photographer in China. […]
The Conflict on the Ussuri
For a few unsettling months in 1969, tensions between two nuclear powers reached fever-pinch. On […]
Founding of the PRC
October 1st 1949. Mao Zedong inexplicably arrived an hour early at the red-lacquered Gate of Eternal […]