The 37th Anniversary of the June Fourth Tiananmen Massacre: Memory Endures Amid Intensifying Repression (opens in new tab)

June 4, 2026, marked the 37th anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre. Compared with previous years, this year’s commemorations revealed an increasingly stark dual reality: restrictions in Hong Kong and mainland China continued to intensify, but the memory of June Fourth did not disappear. Through overseas commemorations, exhibitions, projection campaigns, the release of historical footage, and anonymous acts of remembrance, public memory continued to spread.