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Tank Man

Tank Man (also known as the Unknown Protester or the Unknown Rebel) is an unidentified individual, presumed to be a Chinese man, who stood in front of a column of Type 59 tanks on Chang'an Avenue near Tiananmen Square in Beijing on June 5, 1989. The confrontation occurred one day after the government of China forcibly cleared the square following six…

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Known for
Iconic photo of him obstructing tanks during the aftermath of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
Chinese
坦克人 · 无名的抗议者 · 无名的反抗者 · 王维林
Hanyu Pinyin
Tǎnkè rén · Wúmíng de kàngyì zhě · Wúmíng de fǎnkàng zhě · Wáng Wéilín
Other names
Wang Weilin (posited) · Unknown Protester · Unknown Rebel
Transcriptions
TranscriptionsStandard MandarinHanyu PinyinTǎnkè rén · TranscriptionsStandard MandarinHanyu PinyinWúmíng de kàngyì zhě · TranscriptionsStandard MandarinHanyu PinyinWúmíng de fǎnkàng zhě · TranscriptionsStandard MandarinHanyu PinyinWáng Wéilín

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Tank Man

Nodes104
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related to External links · 19
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related to Obstruction · 18
Tank Man → After, As, At, Chang'an Avenue, Chinese, Having, He, In, It, June, Stuart Franklin, The, The New York Times, There, Tiananmen, Tiananmen Square, Time, Type
related to Identity and whereabouts · 15
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related to In media · 15
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related to Legacy · 13
Tank Man → All Time, Although, Century, China, Chinese, In April, In November, Internet, Jeff Widener, The Most Important People, The Most Influential Images, Time, Unknown Rebel
related to Staged event theory · 8
Tank Man → According, Chinese Communist Party, Despite, Harunobu Kato, Japanese NHK, Kato, Nearly, Tiananmen Square
see also · 7
Tank Man → ChinaHuman, ChinaList, FićoTankieHe ZhihuaTehran's Tank Man, LandmesserChinese, OdehAffan KurniawanHistory, People's Republic, Tiananmen Square
Chinese · 4
Tank Man → 坦克人, 无名的反抗者, 无名的抗议者, 王维林
Hanyu Pinyin · 4
Tank Man → Tǎnkè rén, Wáng Wéilín, Wúmíng de fǎnkàng zhě, Wúmíng de kàngyì zhě
Transcriptions · 4
Tank Man → TranscriptionsStandard MandarinHanyu PinyinTǎnkè rén, TranscriptionsStandard MandarinHanyu PinyinWáng Wéilín, TranscriptionsStandard MandarinHanyu PinyinWúmíng de fǎnkàng zhě, TranscriptionsStandard MandarinHanyu PinyinWúmíng de kàngyì zhě

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tank man chinese square tanks tiananmen time china also june lead protests beijing government hotel scene one 1989 unknown protester

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Tank ManChinese坦克人1.00infobox
Tank ManChinese无名的抗议者1.00infobox
Tank ManChinese无名的反抗者1.00infobox
Tank ManChinese王维林1.00infobox
Tank ManDisappearedJune 5, 1989 .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-p…1.00infobox
Tank ManHanyu PinyinTǎnkè rén1.00infobox
Tank ManHanyu PinyinWúmíng de kàngyì zhě1.00infobox
Tank ManHanyu PinyinWúmíng de fǎnkàng zhě1.00infobox
Tank ManHanyu PinyinWáng Wéilín1.00infobox
Tank ManKnown forIconic photo of him obstructing tanks during the aftermath of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre1.00infobox
Tank ManOther namesWang Weilin (posited)1.00infobox
Tank ManOther namesUnknown Protester1.00infobox
Tank ManOther namesUnknown Rebel1.00infobox
Tank ManTranscriptionsTranscriptionsStandard MandarinHanyu PinyinTǎnkè rén1.00infobox
Tank ManTranscriptionsTranscriptionsStandard MandarinHanyu PinyinWúmíng de kàngyì zhě1.00infobox
Tank ManTranscriptionsTranscriptionsStandard MandarinHanyu PinyinWúmíng de fǎnkàng zhě1.00infobox
Tank ManTranscriptionsTranscriptionsStandard MandarinHanyu PinyinWáng Wéilín1.00infobox

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