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Border Crossing Into Tiananmen Square; still under lockdown twenty-five years on

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Philip J. Cunningham
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What follows is an account of a return visit to Tiananmen Square in commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the peaceful demonstrations and violent crackdown that I witnessed in Beijing in 1989.

Initially I had planned to go to Hong Kong, as I had been invited to join the well-publicized commemoration in Victoria Park where the people of Hong Kong have held a candlelight vigil for the lost souls and lost dreams of 1989 on an annual basis for a quarter of a century now. In past years I have marched with the conscientious objectors of Hong Kong, lit candles in the warm tropical air and drawn strength from the distant but principled and persistent expression of solidarity with the uprising at Tiananmen.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 11 , Issue 26 , June 2013 , e5
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