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Il y a trente ans, les étudiants chinois se soulevaient pour exiger la démocratie et furent victimes d’une sanglante répression. Nourrie par les "Tiananmen Papers", une captivante plongée au coeur des événements du printemps 1989.

May 4, 2024

An artist's sculpture is burnt down, a protester is charged with a criminal case, and a democracy movement is violently attacked. In the United States, three Chinese dissidents fight for democracy against a superpower through art, petition, and grassroots organizing, but not even exile is safe.

Au printemps 1989, lorsque les étudiants occupent la place Tian'anmen à Pékin, Liu Xiaobo, chercheur en littérature chinoise et orateur hors pair, devient l’un des mentors du mouvement. Peu de temps avant que ne débute le massacre, dans la nuit du 3 au 4 juin, il supplie la jeunesse d’évacuer la place et entame une grève de la faim pour demander au pouvoir d'éviter la violence. Arrêté le 6 juin, il est envoyé en camp de rééducation. À sa libération, un an et demi plus tard, il choisit de demeurer en Chine et de résister de l’intérieur, tandis que nombre de ses compatriotes optent pour l’exil. Arrêté en 2008, pour avoir corédigé la Charte 08, programme pour une transition démocratique en Chine, il est condamné à onze ans de prison pour subversion du pouvoir de l’État. Toujours incarcéré en 2010, il ne peut recevoir en personne le prix Nobel de la paix qui lui est décerné et meurt en captivité sept ans plus tard, en juillet 2017.

April 11, 2006

On June 5, 1989, one day after Chinese troops expelled thousands of demonstrators from Tiananmen Square in Beijing, a solitary, unarmed protester stood his ground before a column of tanks advancing down the Avenue of Eternal Peace. Captured by Western photographers watching nearby, this extraordinary confrontation became an icon of the fight for freedom around the world. FRONTLINE investigates the mystery of the tank man — his identity, his fate, and his significance for the Chinese leadership.

June 30, 2021

As the Communist Party of China celebrates its 100th anniversary, this documentary looks back at the party’s history, from the 1920’s, to the Civil War, the Great Leap Forward, the Great Famine, the Cultural Revolution and the reforms by Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping. Did the Great Famine cost more than 15 million lives? How does the Cultural Revolution continue to shape Chinese politics today? What was capitalism like after Mao’s death? Through rare and never-before-seen historical footage, expert interviews and eyewitness accounts of the Great Famine, Tiananmen incident, and the Cultural Revolution, get to know how one party has so profoundly shaped China.

This documentary short film by Arthur Kent recounts the June 4, 1989 assault by the People's Liberation Army on pro-democracy demonstrators in Beijing's Tiananmen Square.

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