I am Neda: Revolution, Social Media, and the Tiananmen Square Connection

[hethatishere]

...She lies in the Tehran street with her headscarf half-off, blood pooling around her jeans and white sneakers.

"Don't be afraid, Neda dear, don't be afraid," a white-haired man says desperately in Persian. Another man presses on her chest, trying to keep her alive.

Scarlet blood gushes from her nose and mouth and courses across her pale face. Men

Comments

[brigid]

one major difference between neda and tank man is that tank man is essentially a mystery. his identity was never confirmed, neither was his fate. he chose, for whatever reason, to stand against a battalion of tanks, providing the Chinese government to praise their own restraint in not running his ass down and providing the West (where interdependence isn't as highly valued) an iconic individual who stood up to the government

[sxoa]

Its not just the images of the protests from 1989 in Tiananmen Square but the protests themselves. The current generation of students and young adults in China (excluding Hong Kong) knows essentially nothing about the protests. University students when asked who have even heard of it say things like wasn't it for economic reforms or against communism or things of that ilk. Incidentally most of the economic reforms in China were already begun with the death of Mao, before the Tiananmen Square protests. They really were mostly about the democracy stuff if I remember right