Tiananmen Square
What does it say about Britain that the Palace of Westminster is crumbling?
Jan-Werner Müller explores the ways in which both politicians and the electorate are conditioned by their built democratic environment
The Pillar of Shame and the erasure of Hong Kong
In the dead of night one of the most prominent memorials to the Tiananmen Square massacre, the Pillar of Shame,…
Give Hong Kongers real security: a British passport
We seem to be building up to a second Tiananmen Square, 30 years after the first. This time the venue…
Mao devours his foes
Frank Dikötter, professor of humanities at the University of Hong Kong and winner of the Samuel Johnson prize in 2011,…
Mao’s violent disciple
Much has been written about Deng Xiao-ping (1904–1997), most recently by Ezra Vogel in Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of…
The shadow of the tanks
Looking at these protests, I fear another Tiananmen
