The Tank Man

Tiananmen Square, June, 1989
The Tank Man

"Tiananmen Square, Beijing, the largest public space in the world, created on an inhuman scale. The monumental public buildings that line the edges and the vast, treeless spaces in between speak of the insignificance of the individual before the might of the state.

The atmosphere here is edgy. Even with permits and government minders, our filming is constantly interrupted. Soldiers, policemen, men in plain clothes, all demand our papers. The authorities here are afraid of cameras. They know their power. They have hundreds of them trained on Tiananmen Square, their cameras..."

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::: 001 Prologue ::: 002 Tens of Millions of Protestors ::: 003 the Theater of Massacre ::: 004 China's Rise ::: 005 Two Chinas ::: 006 The Struggle to Control Information