May 4th--Students carry a banner reading, "Hello, Mr. Democracy".
April 28th--Students took notes of the posters on college campuses in Beijing. Some of the posters were written by students who came from out of town.
April 29th--Due to pressure from the April 27th march, the Chinese authorities conducted an insincere dialogue with students.
April 29th--The spokesperson for the government, Yuan Mu, sat at the head table and lectured the students. The student representatives were pre-selected from government-recognized student unions. The Beijing Independent Student Union, which was formed just the day before, refused to accept this as a true dialogue.
May 4th--In Shanghai, all universities jointly launched a mass demonstration commemorating the May 4th anniversary, with tens of thousands participating. After the demonstration students staged a sit-in in front of the Shanghai municipal government, demanding dialogue on their �¢ï¿½ï¿½Students�¢ï¿½ï¿½ Manifesto�¢ï¿½ï¿½, with Jiang Zemin, the Party Secretary General of Shanghai. The female student shown in the photo is announcing the �¢ï¿½ï¿½Manifesto�¢ï¿½ï¿½ in front of the municipal government building.
May 4th--About seven thousand students from Beijing Normal University march onto Tiananmen Square.
May 4th--Chinese police try in vain to contain the huge crowd of student marchers.
May 4th--Chinese students shout with joy after breaking through a police blockade.
May 4th--A senior professor, who participated in the May 4th Movement seventy years before, addresses the crowd in support of the students' petition in front of the Shanghai municipal government building.
May 10th--The bicycle demonstration on May 10th was probably the first of the kind in the world, which fit well with the state of mind of the Chinese students, who felt they were changing their world and bringing new things to life.
May 10th--The bicycle demonstration reaches Tiananmen Square. One student has his mouth and forehead bound with bandages, which read "Return my human rights--I want to speak out," supporting the petitions by journalists and reporters in Beijing
May 13th--The students' hunger strike started on the afternoon of May 13th, 1989. The students braved a chilly night on Tiananmen Square. Most students believed the government would yield to their demands quickly, so they were not prepared with bedding.
May 14th--Last Letter: With our lives, we petition the authorities. "Papa, Mama, if I should die an unfortunate death this time, please never think that this is a moment of rashness by your son, nor it was due to the urgings of older men ...
May 4 saw 150,000 students gather on Tiananmen Square and journalists and intellectuals for the first time joined the students’ demonstration.
As the students’ calls for dialogue with the government were unproductive, on May 13, the students turned to a new tactic: a hunger strike.
(All photos: 64memo.com)
