10th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests any mention of the event is completely taboo in Mainland China; events which mark it only take place in Hong Kong, and in Macao to a much lesser extent. In the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, thousands of students and protests had gathered in the centre of Beijing when troops opened fire. An unknown number of people were wounded or died in the incident. As the People's Republic of China has publicly embraced the one country, two systems model of governance for Hong Kong, the annual 4 June observance which has become a tradition since 1989 has continued after the
A Tiananmen Journal Tiananmen Journal" is based on Feng's "Memo of 1989 Student Protests" (八九學運備忘錄), first drafted in 1990. To ensure the details of the activities are in correct order and what he heard from others during the protests was truthful, Feng started editing his "Memo" and adding footnotes in the following eighteen years, before finally publishing them in the book, "A Tiananmen Journal". The book is divided into nine chapters: It briefly records the 1987 student protest at Tiananmen Square on New Year's Day. Some of the students were angry about the "Ten Regulations" (十條) issued by the government on 26 December