Read more about the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989:
Comprehensive Wikipedia entry about the "Tiananmen Square protests of 1989"
with many links and pictures.
A
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing. Declassified History.The
site is divided in five sections (Student Demonstrations / On the Brink
/ The Crackdown / The Aftermath / Ten Years after Tiananmen) and has
many links to original documents about the incident on Tiananmen Square 1989.
The Gate of Heavenly Peace - Feature-length documentary and various archival documents about the Beijing massacre of June 4, 1989.
BBC article "Witnessing Tiananmen: Clearing the square" with eyewitness accounts of the Tiananmen Square incident 1989
Dossiers and Video Clips about the Tiananmen Square Massacre 1989 at "Les Archives de la Radio Television Suisse" (in French
The painting "Execution" by Beijing artist Yue Minjun was inspired by the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. The artist about his painting: "I want the audience not to think of one thing or one place or one event. The whole world's the background. As I said, the viewer should not link this painting to Tiananmen. But Tiananmen is the catalyst for conceiving of this painting." 2007 Execution was sold for US $ 5.9 million at London's Sotheby's. and became the most expensive work of Chinese contemporary art.
