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| Photograph by the Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei (middle) that he took in a mirrored elevator with two police officers and the Chinese artist and musician Zouxiao Zuzhou (right), Chengdu, China, 2009 |
The massacre of protesters in Beijing on June 4, 1989, and the harsh repression during the months immediately following put China into a foul mood. Among ordinary Chinese, the prestige of the Communist Party, whose leaders had ordered the brutal assault, fell to a new low. Western governments applied sanctions and (at least in public) distanced themselves from “the butchers of Beijing,” to borrow Bill Clinton’s phrase. Some China-watchers wondered how long the regime could hold on.《more》
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