Six Four Eighty Nine (Twenty Five)

Untitled photograph by Liu Xia, © copyright 1996.

The day a man stopped tanks in Tiananmen (CNN).

China, the world remembers (CNN).

Hu Jia on Tiananmen and memory (CNN).

Untitled photograph by Liu Xia from the “Ugly Babies” series, © copyright 1996.

“June Fourth in My Body,” poem by Chinese pro-democracy activist Liu Xiaobo (in Chinese).

“June Fourth in My Body,” by Liu Xiaobo (in English).

Untitled photograph by Liu Xia from the “Ugly Babies” series, © copyright 1996.

The Ordeal of China’s Liu Xia (Wall Street Journal).

Chinese-Australian artist Guo Jian detained (CNN).

Ai Weiwei censored in Beijing and Shanghai (The Art Newspaper).

(Note: Today Photocritic International commemorates the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing on June 4, 1989. This post’s cryptic title pays homage to the oblique strategies employed by Chinese bloggers and social-media users to slip past the government censors’ blackout of any mention of this tragic event.)