Oiwan Lam · June, 2015

Latest posts by Oiwan Lam from June, 2015

Why the Numbers 64, 89 and 535 Are Missing From the Chinese Internet

  4 June 2015

Today is June 4, the 26th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests of 1989. In recent years, some numbers have gone missing on the Chinese Internet because of censorship. These numbers are 64, 89 and 535 — which stands for May 35, a popular way to refer to June 4. They are...

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