Scott Savitt is a former foreign correspondent for The Los Angeles Times although according to Los Angeles Times records he never held a staff position there, and United Press International in Beijing. His articles have been published in The Los Angeles Times , [1] [2] Washington Post, [3] Wall Street Journal , [4] New York Times , [5] and many other publications. [6] [7] [8]
He has been interviewed on NPR, BBC, ABC’s Nightline and the CBS News . He is the in-house Chinese-English translator for numerous human rights organizations. In 1994, he founded Beijing Scene, [9] China’s first independent English-language newspaper. [7] In 2003 he published China Now magazine. [10]
He’s the founding editor of the award-winning Contexts magazine. He was a visiting scholar at Duke University and now lives with his family in Ann Arbor, Michigan. [11] [12] [13]
Crashing the Party: An American Reporter in China (2016) [14]
The Tank Man is the nickname given to an unidentified individual, presumed to be a Chinese man, who stood in front of a column of Type 59 tanks leaving Tiananmen Square in Beijing on June 5, 1989. On the previous day, the government of China cleared the square of protesting students after six weeks of standoff, in the process killing hundreds or even thousands of people mostly in other parts of Beijing. As the lead tank maneuvered to pass by the man, he repeatedly shifted his position in order to obstruct the tank's attempted path around him, and forced the tanks to halt to avoid running him over. The incident was filmed and shared to a worldwide audience. Internationally, it is considered one of the most iconic images of all time. Inside China, the image and the accompanying events are subject to censorship.
Herman J. "Herb" Wesson Jr. is an American politician who served as a councilmember representing the 10th District for three terms between July 1, 2005 and December 14, 2020, and again on an appointed basis from March 22, 2022 until August 25, 2022. He was also the President of the Los Angeles City Council and Speaker of the California State Assembly.
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Digital Entertainment Network was a multimedia dot-com company founded in the late-1990s by Marc Collins-Rector and his partner, Chad Shackley. Rector and Shackley had sold their ISP, Concentric Network, and used the proceeds of that sale, along with additional investor funding, to launch DEN. In February 1999, Jim Ritts resigned as commissioner of the LPGA to become chairman of DEN.
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Dale Salwak is a professional magician from California who continues to perform internationally. He is a regular performer at The Magic Castle and is known as "The Gentleman of Magic". He has been the long-time director and owner of the Chavez School of Magic, which was established by Ben and Marian Chavez in 1941 under the G.I. Bill. He has been featured in cover stories on numerous magic-related publications. He has also taught English literature at Citrus College in Glendora, California since 1973 and has published 25 books.
Ge Xiaoguang, is a Chinese artist best known for painting the massive 6 x 4.6-meter portrait of Mao Zedong that hangs at Tiananmen Gate in Tiananmen Square.
Stephen B. Burke is an American businessman. He is the senior executive vice president of Comcast and chairman of NBCUniversal.
George Maitland Stanley was an American sculptor. Well known as sculpting the Muse Statue at the Hollywood Bowl. Austin Cedric Gibbons designed the Oscar statuette in 1928, but tasked the sculpting to George Stanley.
Uerkesh Davlet, commonly known by his pinyin name Wu'erkaixi, is a Chinese political commentator known for his leading role during the Tiananmen protests of 1989.
Li Bin is a former Chinese diplomat. He previously served as the Chinese Ambassador to South Korea, during his term of that office, he gave information to the Government of South Korea, he was placed under investigation by the National Security Commission of the Chinese Communist Party in December 2006.
Han Xu was a Chinese diplomat who served as the Chinese Ambassador to the United States from 1985 to 1989, and as Vice Foreign Minister of China from 1982 to 1985.
The Malibu Coast is an American Viticulture Area located in the Santa Monica Mountains of western Los Angeles County, California. The appellation is 46 miles (74 km) long and eight miles (13 km) wide, rising from the Pacific Coast to an elevation of 3,111 feet (948 m). The National Agricultural Statistics Service's "California Grape Acreage Report Crop 2015" documented the most widely planted varietals in Los Angeles County as Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah, Zinfandel, Merlot, and Chardonnay.
Tiananmen Exiles: Voices of the Struggle for Democracy in China is a scholarly book by Rowena Xiaoqing He, published by Palgrave Macmillan in April 2014. The book has been named one of the Top five China Books by the Asia Society. It is primarily an oral history of Yi Danxuan, Shen Tong, and Wang Dan, all exiled student leaders from the 1989 Tiananmen Movement in China. "Tracing the life trajectories of these exiles, from childhood during Mao's Cultural Revolution, adolescence growing up during the reform era, and betrayal and punishment in the aftermath of June 1989, to ongoing struggles in exile", the author explores, "how their idealism was fostered by the very powers that ultimately crushed it, and how such idealism evolved facing the conflicts that historical amnesia, political commitment, ethical action, and personal happiness presented to them in exile." Dan Southerland notes in Christian Science Monitor that the book provides "fresh insights and an appreciation for the challenges that exiled Chinese student leaders faced after they escaped from China." Paul Levine from American Diplomacy states that there was "a fourth major character: the author herself." Tiananmen Exiles is a part of the Palgrave Studies in Oral History and contains a foreword by Perry Link.
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Gabrielle C. Burton is an American director, producer and actor best known for her film, Kings, Queens and In-Betweens, a 2017 documentary about gender as looked at through the lens of drag queens, kings, and transgender performers in Columbus, Ohio, which had its world premiere at the Cleveland International Film Festival. She often works with her sisters, Maria Burton, Jennifer Burton, Ursula Burton and Charity Burton through their Five Sisters Productions company. She wrote and starred in Temps, and co-directed Manna From Heaven. Burton won an artist residency from the Wexner Center for the Arts to make a new film, a documentary on gender and parenting called Drag Queens Made Me a Better Parent, inspired by her TEDx talk.
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