Lun Zhang (Author) Adrien Gombeaud (Author) Ameziane (Artist, Cover Artist) Tiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes from IDW. Many voices and viewpoints are on display, from Western journalists to Chinese administrators. Providing comprehensive coverage of the 1989 protests that ended in bloodshed and drew global scrutiny, Zhang includes context for these explosive events, sympathetically depicting a world of discontented, idealistic, activist Chinese youth rarely portrayed in Western media. Now, in this powerful graphic novel, Zhang pairs with French journalist and Asia specialist Adrien Gombeaud and artist Ameziane, to share his unvarnished memory of this crucial moment in world history for the first time. Lun Zhang was just a young sociology teacher then, in charge of management and safety service for the protests. When reports of soldiers marching into Beijing to suppress the protests reverberated across Western airwaves, the world didn't know what to expect. As tens of thousands of students and concerned Chinese citizens took to the streets demanding political reforms, the fate of China's communist system was unknown. Over 30 years ago, on April 15th, 1989, the occupation of Tiananmen Square began. Tiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes from IDW. Available this week, IDW's Tiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes is a graphic novel by Lun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, and Ameziane chronicling the first-hand account of a sociology teacher in China who witnessed it all. Student demonstrations and protests demanding democratic reforms had started earlier that year, soon leading to the Chinese government declaring marshall law and using deadly military force against them. On June 4, 1989, it became a place with meaning for the entire world. Tiananmen Square has long been a place brimming with symbolic meaning in China.
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