1989 albums

The leaderships’ response to the spring 1989 popular demonstrations before and after the night of June 4 was completely unnecessary and extreme. There is no justification for the slaughter of unarmed civilian protestors. The students and other protestors play a key role in the lead up to the events that unfolded, but the slaughter of hundreds if not thousands was completely uncalled for. But, no compromises were willing to be completely agreed on, multiple times, because there was always a small…

revolution and his life and the lives of others were greatly affected by the Cultural Revolution. Bei Dao’s poetry was a great influence on many people and was a major part of his life and the events of the Cultural Revolution. After this revolution, in 1989, China’s government killed hundreds of civilians during a military march. This event caused Bei Dao to be exiled from China. Bei Dao’s writings and literary works have been greatly influenced by his life in China, the Cultural Revolution…

Photography captures and preserves the significant and insignificant moments in life enabling mankind to broaden its understanding in a world where man regularly interacts with one another thousands of miles across an ocean. Nothing, however, can replicate the unfiltered, first-hand experience one undergoes, yet many forms of art, including photography, are conduits through which man may attempt to share such an experience. Each medium of art, consequently, is subject to the natural biases with…

“paramount leader” from 1978 to 1992. He took over after the death of Mao Zedong. During the time of morning for the people of Beijing, there were 100,000 people on Tiananmen Square. There was a lack of leadership during the tike of the protests of 1989, so the people protesting raised the issue of corruption in the Chinese government, and spoke their opinions about wanting economic…

The Tiananmen Massacre is not only one of the most influential events of all time but also one of the most censored. In April of 1989, over one hundred thousand students protested political reform in Beijing, China. As time went on, the protest grew exponentially as the students were joined by middle-class workers and peasants. By June, Tiananmen Square was flooded with millions of people; doctors, journalist, farmers, even soldiers were there. The only group not present were the political…

The “Tank Man” photograph was taken on June 5, 1989. This mind-boggling photograph shows a man standing in front of a column of tanks. As the history recalls, this incident happened after the Chinese military had suppressed Tiananmen Square protests. When the tanks were rolling down the road, the man appeared fearless as he stepped out to temporarily stop the movement of tanks. This is most commonly seen as an act of defiance or mockery, but people are still not sure who exactly the man was,…

China’s Internet Censorship It is not good to be right when the government is wrong. And since most governments get to choose what they think is right even if it might not be, there is a good chance that somebody is not going to agree with them. This is a growing problem today in China where their communist government gets to choose what their citizens see and don’t see. It is unnervingly similar to what happened in George Orwell’s science fiction novel, 1984. The government, which is headed by…

The Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989, more popularly known as the Tiananmen Square Incident or Tiananmen Square Massacre, were a series of student-led demonstrations in Beijing during 1989. The student-led protests were forcibly suppressed by tanks and armed troops 2 weeks after the government declared martial law and mobilized as many as 300,000 troops into Beijing. The death toll is still widely debated.The protests happened during rapid economic and social developments in China. The students…

happening in this photograph is a Chinese student is protesting the militarization of China in Beijing by placing his life at risk by standing in front of four oncoming military tanks I could, in all reality, run him over at any moment. In Beijing in 1989, many students were upset with China and they felt that they needed to protest against the government. Time Magazine claims that this picture has a lot of effect on what people think actually happened that day in Tiananmen Square because of…

The previous day military tanks roared down Chiangan Avenue towards Tiananmen Square. The Communist Chinese army was ordered to eradicate the pro-democracy protesters. Hundreds were killed and thousands arrested during the massacre. As the sun rose the next morning the rattling of the automatic weapons finally began to vanish. Vehicles were burned to ashes and left on the middle of main avenues. Jeff Widener, an American photographer, captured a stunning photograph from the Beijing Hotel gave…