{"id":55710,"date":"2023-06-04T01:46:07","date_gmt":"2023-06-03T16:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/03\/tiananmen-massacre-museum-opens-in-new-york-despite-fear-of-beijing-backlash"},"modified":"2023-06-04T01:46:07","modified_gmt":"2023-06-03T16:46:07","slug":"tiananmen-massacre-museum-opens-in-new-york-despite-fear-of-beijing-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55710","title":{"rendered":"Tiananmen massacre museum opens in New York despite fear of Beijing backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Communist party has campaigned for decades to eradicate remembrance events for the 4 June clashes in Beijing<\/p>\n<p>When Zhou Fengsuo was looking for a space in New York to display his art collection, he couldn\u2019t believe his luck when he stumbled across 894 6th Avenue in the heart of midtown Manhattan. The numbers of the address \u2013 8946 \u2013 were the same as the date he wanted to commemorate: 4 June 1989. It was \u201cunbelievable\u201d, the former student leader marvelled.<\/p>\n<p>That Zhou\u2019s collection, which opened to the public on Friday as part of the June 4th Memorial Museum, ended up in such an uncanny location is the result of a concerted, decades-long campaign by the Chinese Communist party (CCP) to eradicate any remembrance of the 1989 massacre around Tiananmen Square anywhere in the world.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/03\/tiananmen-massacre-museum-opens-in-new-york-despite-fear-of-beijing-backlash\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Communist party has campaigned for decades to eradicate remembrance events for the 4 June clashes in BeijingWhen Zhou Fengsuo was looking for a space in New York to display his art collection, he couldn\u2019t believe his luck when he stumbled across 894 6t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3586,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,1298,431,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-new-york","category-tiananmen-square-protests-1989","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3586"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55711,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55710\/revisions\/55711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}