Illustration:
ill. 5.54 b (set: 5.54)
Date:
30.05.1989
Genre:
photograph
Material:
scan, grayscale; original source: photograph, black-and-white
Source:
Spence 1990: Spence, Jonathan D. The Search for Modern China. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1990:insert before p.741.
Keywords:
Mao Zedong, Goddess of Democracy, Tian'anmen Square, protest, demonstration, Mao portrait, flag, masses

Tian'anmen 30.05.1989 (Tian'anmen 1989 05.30. 天安门 1989 05.30.)

Before and after the Cultural Revolution, too, Mao would not be missed in public at Tian’anmen, so for example during parades celebrating the Great Leap Forward in the late 1950s or during the Tian’anmen protests in 1989 as we see here: Mao Zedong facing the Goddess of Democracy at Tian'anmen Square 1989. Indeed, his presence at Tian’anmen played a role in paintings of Tian’anmen immediately since 1949 (e.g. Wu 2005:74), and was reflected in a set of stamps issued in celebration of the establishment of the People’s Republic (Wu 2005:72).