In Memory of Yu Zhijian (right)
1963—2017
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Foreword to ‘The Martial Law Troops of June Fourth’ Wu Renhua, May 29, 2017
Wu Renhua (吳仁華) is a unique scholar. For over 20 years he has been immersed in the primary source materials about what Chinese authorities call “the June 4th incident,” and what is known around the world as the Tiananmen Square Massacre. His academic training of nearly a decade was in ancient Chinese historiography — a set of research methodologies that he never expected he would apply to unraveling the genesis, execution, and aftermath of the bloody slaughter of unarmed students and Beijing residents in 1989. Wu was a junior faculty member of the China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing at the time of the protests, in which he was also a participant. He was one of the last to leave Tiananmen Square in the early morning of June 4; on his way back to his college residence he witnessed tanks crushing students in Liubukou (六部口). ...
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Liu Shaoming, a 1989 Veteran and a Labor Activist, Remains Imprisoned Without Sentence
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One Belt, One Road, Total Corruption
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China’s Extraordinary Response to the 11-Nation Letter Over the Torture of Human Rights Lawyers
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Reconsidering Deng Xiaoping the Reformer: What Did He Really Reform?
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Interview With Yu Zhijian, One of the ‘Three Hunan Hooligans’ Who Defaced the Portrait of Mao Zedong Over Tiananmen Square in 1989, Part Two
Liao Yiwu, June 2, 2017 (Continued from Part One) LIAO: I’ve heard some people say that if they had known blood was…
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Interview With Yu Zhijian, One of the ‘Three Hunan Hooligans’ Who Defaced the Portrait of Mao Zedong Over Tiananmen Square in 1989
Liao Yiwu, June 1, 2017 On the afternoon of May 23, 1989, sitting at home in a small town in Sichuan, poet Liao Yiwu…
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Wang Qiaoling, Wife of Lawyer Li Heping, Reflects on Life, Faith and the 709 Crackdown
Wang Qiaoling, May 26, 2017 This interview was conducted on May 5, 2017, three days before lawyer Li Heping returned home. – The Editors …
