Kai Wong

The famous 'tank man', alone and unarmed, stands passively in front of a convoy of tanks on the Avenue of Eternal Peace in Tiananmen Square on June 5, 1989. The iconic image is banned in China but has permeated popular and protest culture around the globe

For many Chinese born after the Tiananmen Square protests, 1989 is the year nothing happened

Global Politics

The Chinese government whitewashed the history of Tiananmen Square so effectively, a child born in Beijing didn’t even hear about it until she was 14.The Chinese government whitewashed the history of Tiananmen Square so effectively, a child born in Beijing didn’t even hear about it until she was 14.