June Fourth Twelve years is an instant in history but a long time in a person's life.
History seems frozen there.
To write about June Fourth is to recall the blood of thousands of young people spilled on the streets around Chang'an Boulevard in Beijing. Time may wash away the bloodstains, but not their memory. History and the people will ultimately judge June Fourth as one of the most dramatic and significant episodes in the worldwide pursuit of democracy in the twentieth century. Certainly it was the greatest event of that kind in China. June Fourth was not merely a student protest or a patriotic democracy movement.