30 Years After Tiananmen Protests, 'The Fight Is Still Going On For China'
A crowd gathers to view the unveiling of the Goddess of Democracy statue, built by the protesters, on Tiananmen Square at the end of May 1989. The statue was destroyed less than a week later as the violent crackdowns began. Photo credit: Jian Liu / Humanitarian China / NPR
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30 Years After Tiananmen Protests, 'The Fight Is Still Going On For China'
Top: Events planned by the student union of Peking University to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the May Fourth Movement of 1919. Bottom: A portrait of former Communist Party leader Hu Yaobang at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. The first protests broke out in the heart of the ancient imperial city of Beijing, set off by Hu's death in April 1989. Photo credit: Jian Liu / Humanitarian China / NPR
A protester in Tiananmen Square bares his chest, 1989. The photographer said of this picture, “If you work in news, one of the things you try to do as a still photographer is to try to crystallize the emotion, the tension, of the event you are trying to describe. The history of people tearing their shirts off and baring their chest at the enemy is something the Chinese did in the 1930s during the Japanese invasion.” Photo credit: Stuart Franklin / Magnum Photos