relations between uyghurs and han chinese are at an all time low following a spate of voilence that has resulted in over 150 deaths in urumqi, the capital of china’s far-western xinjiang (which means new frontier in mandarin) province, an area known as east turkestan before mao and his red army invaded in 1949, yet [...]
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New Tank Man image
Further to the story of Tiananmen Square’s unidentified hero, check out this never before published image of Tank Man taken moments before it’s more famous stablemates.
Remembering Tiananmen and “the Unknown Rebel”
It is one of those “do you remember where you were when…” moments. I was a spotty-faced, self-conscious first year university student whose idea of protesting was complaining about the price of textbooks to my mates in the uni bar. But watching the evening news in my share house in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs on June 5 [...]
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