Tiananmen

01 December, 2014

Morgan Chua

Navayana

128 pages, Rs.300

The events that took place at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on 4 June 1989 attracted wide international attention, and sparked outrage at the Chinese government’s military action against student demonstrators. Since then, a new generation of Chinese has grown up in a country that continues to grapple with issues of political liberalisation, democracy and censorship. 25 years after they were first published, Morgan Chua’s bold political cartoons offer us anew a graphic history of a period that the Chinese government would still like to sweep under the carpet.