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.
Tag: Tiananmen Massacre
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.
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.
Jiang Zemin (1926 – 2022)
Jiang Zemin, a president and a meme, died this week, aged 96. . On “60 […]