New York museum ‘keeps memories alive’ 35 years after Tiananmen crackdown

Zhou Fengsuo, the curator of the Tiananmen museum in New York, says he has learned more about the crackdown as artefacts have been donated [File: Mike Segar/Reuters]

New York City – When Zhou Fengsuo last saw the mimeograph machine, he was running for his life as the tanks rolled into Tiananmen Square in Beijing in June 1989.

For weeks before that night of bloodshed, Zhou had used the machine, a state-of-the-art photocopier at the time, to churn out leaflets to spread the message of China’s pro-democracy movement.