The Democracy Network
Authors
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Research Fellow, University of Exeter, University of Exeter
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Associate Professor, University of Exeter
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Senior lecturer in democracy studies, University of Canberra
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Senior Lecturer in Communication and Media, University of Sydney
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Visiting Fellow, Sydney Democracy Network, University of Sydney
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Professor of Chinese Politics; Director, Lau China Institute, King's College London
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Beneath all the lachrymose histrionics, the excuses and claims about the false consciousness of those oppressed by the English, the plain and indisputable fact is that Scots rejected the prospect of separating…
By Chee Soon Juan In 2004, Singapore’s former prime minister Lee Kuan Yew was asked whether China would be more prosperous and stable had the students succeeded in overthrowing the communist government…
By Geremie Barmé In confronting major anniversaries of the 1989 Protest Movement, the Chinese authorities organise ritualised persecutions that further victimise those whose China Dream recalls the century-long…
By Kerry Brown For 25 years, the suppression of student protesters on June 4th 1989 in Beijing has stained the conscience of the Chinese Communist Party. This stems not just from the violence used that…
By Rowan Callick Why remember the past? Or should that be, why discover the past? I recall an intriguing conversation at Melbourne University with a doctoral student there from China. The student had told…
In this video, which commemorates the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, Murong Xuecun shares his personal memories of the events that took place on June 4, 1989. He also speaks about the…