China My China

IT WAS TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY...

We watched on CNN as China's vibrant, exhilarating student movement blossomed before our eyes in the spring of 1989. The Chinese government pulled the plug on foreign news coverage, but the eyes of the world remained focused on events unfolding in Beijing's Tiananmen Square.

The sound you hear in this video is a highly edited version of a 14-minute radio piece that aired on KPFA Berkeley soon after the crackdown, created mostly from video we recorded as the events were going down.

We created this Flash video in remembrance of the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. You may be interested to notice how often American ideals are invoked by the Chinese protesters. This video is dedicated to the spirit of hope that, despite seemingly insurmountable odds, cannot be stifled in China.

(Sources: Associated Press, CBS News, Reuters)