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23 Year Remembrance of Tiananmen Square – May 29th 1989, Beijing China
Written by Diane Gatterdam The Goddess of Democracy being erected in Tiananmen Square. Twenty-three years ago on this day Monday May 29th 1989, it was the 10th day of martial law and the students heard for the third time that … Continue reading
Posted in June Fourth, Under the Tree
Tagged Chai Ling, Han Dongfang, Shen Tong, Tiananmen Square incident, Wang Chaohua
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23 Year Remembrance of Tiananmen Square – May 26th 1989, Beijing China
Written by Diane Gatterdam Twenty-three years ago on this day Friday May 26th 1989, even though the square had been fairly quite these past few days, the feeling was of a standoff between the government and the students, nether knowing … Continue reading
Posted in June Fourth, Under the Tree
Tagged Chai Ling, Shen Tong, Tiananmen Square incident, Wang Dan, Zhao Ziyang
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23 Year Remembrance of Tiananmen Square – May 22nd 1989, Beijing China
Written by Diane Gatterdam Twenty-three years ago on this day Monday May 22nd 1989, the waiting game between the students and the government dragged on and the morale of the students started to plummet, and a growing number of students … Continue reading
Posted in June Fourth, Under the Tree
Tagged Deng Xiaoping, Feng Congde, Li Lu, Shen Tong, Tiananmen Square incident, Wang Chaohua, Wang Dan, Wu'er Kaixi, Zhang Boli, Zhao Ziyang
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23 Year Remembrance of Tiananmen Square – May 20th 1989, Beijing China
Written by Diane Gatterdam Twenty-three years ago on this day Saturday May 20th 1989, it was a hot, sultry day, and the day that Beijing was placed under martial law. All forms of public protest would be banned, all journalist … Continue reading
Posted in June Fourth, Under the Tree
Tagged Chai Ling, Li Peng, Shen Tong, Tiananmen Square incident, Zhao Hongliang
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23 Year Remembrance of Tiananmen Square – May 19th 1989, Beijing China
Written by Diane Gatterdam Twenty-one years ago on this day Friday May 19th 1989, at 4:00 am in the morning, Zhao Ziyang, who for so many years had faithfully followed the dictates of the Party decided to break Party discipline, … Continue reading
Posted in June Fourth, Under the Tree
Tagged Chai Ling, Feng Congde, Han Dongfang, Li Lu, Li Peng, Shen Tong, Tiananmen Square incident, Wang Chaohua, Wang Dan, Wu'er Kaixi, Xiang Xiaoji, Zhao Ziyang
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23 Year Remembrance of Tiananmen Square – May 17th 1989, Beijing China
Written by Diane Gatterdam Twenty-three years ago on this day Wednesday May 17th 1989, with more than 2 million people in and around the square, a planed tour for Gorbachev to the Forbidden City had to be cancelled and his … Continue reading
Posted in Hong Kong, Under the Tree
Tagged Chai Ling, Chen Zhen, Deng Xiaoping, Li Lu, Ma Shaofang, Shen Tong, Tiananmen Square incident, Wang Dan, Wu'er Kaixi, Xiang Xiaoji, Yan Jiaqi, Zhang Boli, Zhao Ziyang
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23 Year Remembrance of Tiananmen Square – May 16th 1989, Beijing China
Written by Diane Gatterdam Twenty-three years ago on this day Tuesday May 16th 1989, Deng Xiaoping met with Gorbachev inside the Great Hall of the People bringing the long-sought normalization of Sino-Soviet relations. Meanwhile hundreds of thousands of people from … Continue reading
23 Year Remembrance of Tiananmen Square – May 15th 1989, Beijing China
Written by Diane Gatterdam WELCOME MR. GORBACHEV!!!! Twenty-three years ago on this day Monday May 15th 1989, the dramatic Sino-Soviet reconciliation was scheduled to begin with a grand ceremony in Tiananmen Square at 4:00 PM. Gorbachev was to be greeted … Continue reading
23 Year Remembrance of Tiananmen Square – May 13th 1989, Beijing China
Written by Diane Gatterdam Twenty-three years ago on this day Saturday May 13th 1989, at noon the two hundred students from Beida signed up for the hunger strike and were invited by their professors to have their last lunch. People … Continue reading
