Another photo, showing more tanks. Photo by Stuart Franklin ( Magnum Photos). Tank Man, or the Unknown Rebel, is the nickname of an anonymous man who became internationally famous when he was videotaped and photographed during the Tiananmen Square protests on 5 June 1989. Several photographs were taken of the man, who is seen to stand in front of a column of Chinese Type 59 tanks, preventing their advance. The most widely reproduced version of the photograph was taken by Jeff Widener (Associated Press), from the sixth floor of the Beijing Hotel, about half a mile (0.8 km) away, through a 400 mm lens. Image File history File links Tianasquare. ...
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The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 were a series of demonstrations led by students, intellectuals, and labour activists in the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) between April 15, 1989 and June 4, 1989. ...
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Another version was taken by photographer Stuart Franklin of Magnum Photos. His photograph has a wider field of view than Widener's photograph, showing more tanks in front of the man. Franklin subsequently won a World Press Award for the photograph. It was featured in LIFE magazine's "100 Photos that Changed the World" in 2003. Variations of the image were also recorded by CNN and BBC film crews, on videotape, and were transmitted across the world. Magnum Photos is a world-renowned photographic agency, with offices located in New York, Paris, London and Tokyo. ...
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The still and motion photography of the man standing alone before a line of tanks reached international audiences practically overnight. It headlined hundreds of major newspapers and news magazines and was the lead story on countless news broadcasts around the world. In April 1998, the United States magazine TIME included the "Unknown Rebel" in its 100 most influential people of the 20th century. 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean [1]. // Coated in ice, power and telephone lines sag and often break, resulting in power outages. ...
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Behind the image
The incident took place on the Cháng Ān Dà Jiē (长安大街), or "Great Avenue of Chang'an" just a minute away from Tiananmen, which leads into the Forbidden City, Beijing, on June 5, 1989, the day after the Chinese government began cracking down violently on the protests. The man stood alone in the middle of the road as the tanks approached. He held two bags, one in each hand. As the tanks came to a stop, he appeared to be trying to wave them away. In response, the front tank attempted to drive around the man, but the man repeatedly stepped into the path of the tank in a show of nonviolent action.[1] By looking at these two photographs and using the painted road lines as a reference: it is evident that the tank has moved forward. After blocking the tanks, the man climbed up onto the top of the lead tank and had a conversation with the driver. Reports of what he said to the driver vary, including "Why are you here? My city is in chaos because of you";[1] "Go back, turn around, and stop killing my people"; and "Go away." Video footage shows that anxious onlookers then pulled the man away and absorbed him into the crowd[1] and the tanks continued on their way. A British newspaper also claimed that he had been executed, several days after the incident, but these claims have not been confirmed either.[2] Changan Avenue Changan Avenue is a major through route in Beijing, China. ...
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The Tiananmen The Gate of Heavenly Peace is the front entrance into the Imperial City A close-up of the rooftop The Tiananmen or Tiananmen (Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: TiÄnÄnmén; Manchu: Abkai elhe obure duka), is the main entrance to the Imperial City, the...
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Significance of image In the West, pictures of the Unknown Rebel were presented as a symbol of the Chinese democracy movement; a Chinese youth risking his life to oppose a military juggernaut seemed a fitting representation of students bravely and spontaneously protesting against the authoritarian rule of the CPC. The image resonated within democracies as a symbol of an individual's power to halt government and force a change in direction. This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...
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In the PRC the image was used as a symbol of the care of the PLA soldiers in protecting the Chinese people: despite orders to advance, the driver of the tank refused to do so if it meant injuring a single citizen.[citation needed] As with most matters related to the 1989 protests, the Tank Man topic later became and still remains a political taboo in mainland China. Anthem YìyÇ’ngjÅ«n JìnxÃngqÇ” (义勇军进行曲/義勇è»é€²è¡Œæ›²) March of the Volunteers Capital Beijing Largest city Shanghai Official languages Mandarin Chinese1 Government Socialist republic2 - President Hu Jintao - Premier Wen Jiabao Establishment - Peoples Republic declared October 1, 1949 Area - Total 9,596,960 km² (3rd or 4th4) 3,704,4273...
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Biography Little is publicly known of the man's identity. Shortly after the incident, British tabloid the Sunday Express named him as Wang Weilin (王维林), a 19-year-old student; however, the veracity of this claim is dubious. Numerous rumours have sprung up as to the man's identity and current whereabouts, but none are backed by hard evidence. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
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There are several conflicting stories about what happened to him after the demonstration. In a speech to the President's Club in 1999, Bruce Herschensohn — former deputy special assistant to President of the United States Richard Nixon — reported that he was executed 14 days later; other sources say he was killed by firing squad a few months after the Tiananmen Square protests. In Red China Blues: My Long March from Mao to Now, Jan Wong writes that the man is still alive and is hiding in mainland China. 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...
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The People's Republic of China government made few statements about the incident or the person involved. In a 1990 interview with Barbara Walters, then-CCP General Secretary Jiang Zemin was asked what became of the man. Jiang replied "I think never killed."[1] MCMXC redirects here; for the Enigma album, see MCMXC a. ...
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The General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee (Chinese: ä¸å›½å…±äº§å…šä¸å¤®å§”员会总书记 pinyin: ZhÅngguó GòngchÇŽndÇŽng ZhÅngyÄng WÄ›iyuánhuì ZÇ’ngshÅ«jì) is the highest ranking official within the Communist Party of China and heads the Secretariat of the Communist Party of China. ...
JiÄng ZémÃn (Traditional Chinese: 江澤民, Simplified Chinese: 江泽民, Hanyu Pinyin: JiÄng ZémÃn, Wade-Giles: Chiang Tse-min, Cantonese (Jyutping): gong1 zaak6 man4) (born August 17, 1926) was the core of the third generation of Communist Party of China leaders, serving as General Secretary of the Communist...
An article in the Hong Kong Apple Daily states that the man is now residing in Taiwan.[3] This article is about the Hong Kong version of the tabloid newspaper. ...
In popular culture - In The Simpsons episode "Goo Goo Gai Pan", a tank piloted by a Chinese adoption worker drives up to Selma in Tiananmen Square and stops. The shot then pulls back to a composition mimicking the Tank Man photo, complete with Chang'an Avenue's signature streetlights.
- In The Simpsons episode "Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington", Krusty's face is edited into the photo taken by Jeff Widener.
- In the Family Guy episode "Death Has a Shadow", Peter admits that he "Didn't really stand up to that tank in Tiananmen Square" followed by a flashback of him standing beside the Tank Man before saying, "Ah, screw this, I just came over to buy some fireworks," and running off.
- In the novel Hong Kong by Steven Coonts, the "Tank Man" is featured as one of the main characters, leading an anti-communist resistance movement.
- Heavy metal band Anthrax wrote a song about the Tank Man titled "One Man Stands" on their album Persistence of Time released in 1990
- Another heavy metal band Nevermore wrote a song about the event titled "The Tiananmen Man" on their album The Politics of Ecstasy.
- The Hooters mention the event in their song "500 miles" (published in 1989, the same year at the protests) with the lines "A hundred tanks along the square/one man stands and stops them there". The music video of the song also features images of the man and additional footage from the protests.
- Skinny Puppy wrote a song titled "Tin-Omen" which discusses the event on their album Rabies.
- The Jon Stewart book America (The Book) claims that Tank Man was "an OCD sufferer who only felt comfortable standing in front of large objects."
- John Vanderslice imagines alternate whereabouts of Tank Man in a song he wrote called "Do You Remember?" for his Time Travel is Lonely album. The lyrics include "Do you remember the man?/Standing in front of the tanks that/Rolled on Tiananmin Square/He just stood there/I heard the Red Guard went door to door and/They found him hiding under the floorboards."
- In the Animatrix title The Second Renaissance, a protesting robot stands in the path of a human-piloted tank and is crushed under its treads (unlike the Tank Man).
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References - ^ a b c d The Unknown Rebel Time Magazine's profile. Last accessed January 10, 2006
- ^ Frontline: The Tank Man
- ^ (Chinese) Wang Weilin by tank file, Apple Daily, June 2, 2006, Page A1
- The Tiananmen Papers, The Chinese Leadership's Decision to Use Force Against their Own People—In their Own Words, Compiled by Zhang Liang, Edited by Andrew J. Nathan and Perry Link, with an afterword by Orville Schell, PublicAffairs, New York, 2001, hardback, 514 pages, ISBN 1-58648-012-X An extensive review and synopsis of The Tiananmen papers in the journal Foreign Affairs may be found at Review and synopsis in the journal Foreign Affairs.
- June Fourth: The True Story, Tian'anmen Papers/Zhongguo Liusi Zhenxiang Volumes 1–2 (Chinese edition), Zhang Liang, ISBN 962-8744-36-4
- Red China Blues: My Long March from Mao to Now, Jan Wong, Doubleday, 1997, trade paperback, 416 pages, ISBN 0-385-48232-9 (Contains, besides extensive autobiographical material, an eyewitness account of the Tiananmen crackdown and the basis for an estimate of the number of casualties.)
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