What I Learned Today about Tianenmen Square

In the US and, I suppose, most of the West, the words “Tianenmen Square” usually stir up images of the Chinese government brutally suppressing the protests there in 1989. This is why I linked to English and Chinese versions of searches on the word “Tianenmen.”

However, I learned today on Slashdot (and confirmed with my wife) the Chinese people don’t use that phrase in connection with the 1989 protests. Instead, they usually refer to it as “6–4” because the crackdown began on June 4th. So here’s what a Google China search of “six four”  (六四, pronounced liu si) looks like. None of these pictures have anything to do with the events of 1989.

 

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