China’s Dissenters

Beijing’s repression of the 1989 protest movement and the purge that followed resulted in the death, imprisonment, or exile of thousands of Chinese. With some notable exceptions, exile organizations have foundered, losing their sense of purpose or staggering under financial scandals and internal strife. Yet inside China, many dissenters have not given up.

Since 1992, many students and intellectuals arrested in connection with the 1989 protest movement have been released, some for med...