Your best friend Taylor Swift is going to China. At least, a line of officially licensed Tayla merchandise bearing her initials and birth year will be available in the country soon. Do you think the Chinese people will buy it?
On June 1, this past Sunday, police came to the Beijing home of the artist Guo Jian—an Australian citizen, living in Beijing with an Australian passport—and took him away. Two days before, the Financial Times had published an interview with Guo. In it, he talked about how he'd privately made an installation of a…
Police try to stop a man throwing "ghost money" into Hong Kong's Chinese liaison office on Tuesday to mark the 25th anniversary of China's June 4 crackdown on Tiananmen Square. The banners read, "Stop one-party rule in China," "Memorial," and "Demand accountability for the massacre." Image via Kin Cheung/AP.
Next to all the vast political, historical, and human tragedies that were playing out in China 25 years ago, it's a tiny thing to regret, but: This Bloomberg story about the rescue of dissidents after the Tian'anmen Square massacre would be an ideal Hong Kong movie scenario, if only Hong Kong were able to make such a…
An SUV plowed into a crowd of tourists in Beijing's Tiananmen Square on Monday, killing at least five people and injuring 38.
Sky News correspondent Mark Stone was detained by Chinese police in Beijing this morning while in the middle of a live segment on the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Most of the episode—include the moment they were detained, and Stone's conversations with one officer in the midst of their detention—was…
Swiss artist Corinne Vionnet creates art for her series "Photo Opportunities" by overlaying hundreds of tourist photos (she finds them online) on top of one another. What she ends are these beautiful, shimmering things—Boing Boing calls them "metaportraits"—that are as recognizable as they are eerie. They look almost…
[Tourists in Tiananmen Square in Beijing enjoy the decorations for National Day to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic of China and intimidate us Americans. But, ooh, pretty pictures! Image via Getty]
Today is the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. China is celebrating by attempting to censor every single piece of information, anywhere, pertaining to the incident. Let's review China's tactics for keeping this anniversary a big secret:
