by Liao Yiwu
31. Zhou Deshi, male, 20, recent graduate of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Biophysics Research Institute; already assigned to Nanjing University
Zhou was shot and killed on the night of June 3. No details are known.
32. Name unknown, male, age unknown, ticket seller on Beijing bus route 101
At five a.m. on June 4, this man’s dead body lay to the north of the Hongmiao intersection in the eastern suburbs of Beijing. The information was provided by several eyewitnesses.
33. Zhang XX, male, 53, section chief in the infrastructure department of the thermoelectric plant in the eastern suburbs of Beijing
On June 4 at five a.m., Zhang’s dead body lay to the north of the Hongmiao intersection in the eastern suburbs of Beijing. This information was provided by several eyewitnesses.
34. Yang Minghu, male, 42, employee of the China Council for the Promotion of Foreign Trade patent section legal office
On the morning of June 4, Yang suddenly came under fire while standing in front of the main gate of the Ministry of Public Security on Chang’an Avenue. He was hit in the abdomen by dumdum bullets, which are forbidden by international treaty, smashing his bladder and pelvis. He died two days later in great pain at the hospital, his eyes wide open.
35. Zhuang Jiesheng, male, 27, salesperson at the Wudaokou Department Store in Beijing
Zhuang left home during the afternoon of June 3 but never returned. His family searched for him far and wide until June 11, when they saw the photographs of a series of “anonymous corpses that have not been claimed,” provided to the public by Tongren Hospital in Beijing. They had found him.
36. Yuan Minyu, male, 35, electric welder at the Beijing Geological Instrumentation Factory
At midnight on June 3, Yuan was somewhere between Sanlihe and Muxidi, when he was struck in the heart and throat by two bullets. Emergency treatment proved ineffective and he died on the afternoon of June 4 at Beijing Children’s Hospital.
37. Du Yanying, male, 29, worker at a company subordinate to the Beijing reform-through-labor bureau
Du was hit in the waist by a dumdum bullet at two a.m. near the Dabei Photography Studio at Qianmen. His heart and liver were blown apart. He died on the morning of June 5.
38. Lu Jianguo, male, 40, driver for the Beijing Travel Bureau
Lu was struck in the chest by dumdum bullets around eleven p.m. on June 3 at No. 27 Juchang Road near the Sanlihe market. He died where he fell.
39. Yu Di, male, 32, engineer at the Solar Power Research Institute in Beijing, who, working together with colleagues, had invented a thermoelectric membrane and won a prize for this work
During the standoff between martial law troops and tens of thousands of Beijingers along the stretch of road between Nanchizi and the National Museum of China, at around two a.m. on the morning of June 4, gunfire and explosions lit up the night in four furious waves of assault. Yu fell, completely covered in blood. He was taken by others in the crowd to Peking Union Medical College Hospital. A bullet that had entered at his lower left rib and exited by the upper right rib damaged eight of his organs, including his liver, kidneys, and lungs, as well as injuring his backbone. Physicians spared no effort, working on him for more than twenty days. Yu underwent four major operations and the removal of a kidney. However, his high fever did not go down. On the night of June 30, he died in pain.
40. Li Changsheng, male, age unknown, custodian at the Beijing Lianhe University automation engineering department library
Li left home at dawn on June 4 and went to Tiananmen Square to support the patriotic students. He was never seen again. His body was never found.
41. Xi Guiru, female, 24, employee of the Beijing Exhibition Center Labor Services Company
Xi was struck by a bullet in her left shoulder at dawn on June 4, at the north entrance of February 7 Theater Road. She died at Beijing People’s Hospital.
42. Dai Wei, male, 20, cook at Hepingmen Roast Duck Restaurant in Beijing
On the evening of June 3, Dai went to work at the usual time. When he reached the entrance of the Beijing Minzu Hotel, he was dragged along by a panicked crowd fleeing troops. Dai was hit in the back, lost too much blood, and died in the hospital.
43. Wu Xiangdong, male, 21, employee of the Beijing Dongfeng Television Factory
Wu ran into troops at the end of Muxidi Bridge at a little past eleven p.m. on the night of June 3. He was hit in the neck by a dumdum bullet. He was sent to Fuxing Hospital for emergency treatment but had lost too much blood. Before he died, he wrote the address of his work unit on a piece of paper currency and asked a university student to notify his company of his death.
44. Liu Jianguo, male, 35, salesperson at the Beijing Great Wall Trench Coat Company
Liu was shot in the chest around midnight on June 3 at the Xidan Road intersection. He was sent to the Erlong Road Hospital for emergency treatment but could not be saved.
45. Lai Bi, male, 21, of the Zhuang ethnic minority; student at Beijing Medical University
Lai was struck by a 10mm bullet at the intersection of West Chang’an Avenue and South Chang’an Avenue around two a.m. on June 4. The bullet struck his forehead and exited the back of his head. On the morning of June 6, the hospital, under political pressure, made out a death certificate stating that Lai had been “accidentally injured.”
46. Dong Lin, male, 24, employee at the Beijing Eastern District People’s Court
Dong was hit in the ribs on the right side of his chest by a dumdum bullet around eleven p.m. on the night of June 3, on the eastern bank of Muxidi and died. According to several eyewitnesses, four other people were also hit in the fusillade that struck him. One was hit in an artery in his thigh; his whole body twitched for a while and then he died. The crowd took the other three to the Fuxing Hospital for emergency treatment. Physicians there worked day and night but could save only one of them.
47. Guo Anmin, male, 23, recent graduate in jet propulsion at Beihang University; had just passed the entrance exam to study for his master’s degree
Guo died a violent death early on the morning of June 4 at an unknown location. He was shot in the forehead; half of his face was blown away. Nobody knows just who, in the confusion that followed, took his body and put it in the hall of the main building of China University of Political Science and Law. Several days later his school retrieved his body.
48. Lin Renfu, male, 30, recent PhD in materials science at the University of Science and Technology Beijing; had just obtained his passport and was about to go to Japan in October for further study
Together with his classmate Wang Kuanbao, Lin retreated from Tiananmen Square early on the morning of June 4. He had just reached the Liubukou intersection, when he was knocked down and crushed beneath a pursuing tank.
49. Sun Yanchang, male, 24, driver at the Beijing Construction and Furnace Building Company
Sun went out on the night of June 3 to look for his younger brother, who had not yet come home. When he got to the south side of the main station for the Hongmiao 110 bus, in the eastern suburbs of Beijing, a spray of gunfire hit him. The crowd brought him to the Chaoyang Hospital for emergency treatment. After six months of treatment, he died.
50. Qian Hui, male, 21, recent graduate specializing in news collection and editing at the Beijing Broadcasting Institute
On the morning of June 5, as Qian walked out the main gate of his school to take stock of the situation, he was shot in a hail of fire from a tank. An artery in his thigh was pierced and a jet of blood spurted from his body. His bladder was damaged. His mind was still clear, so he warned the students coming to help him, “Watch out! The military vehicles aren’t gone yet!” Everybody helped to carry him back into the school, with the trail of his blood stretching over 300 feet. Qian stopped breathing before he reached the hospital.
51. Zou Bing, female, 19, student at the Beijing Broadcasting Institute
Zou escaped the slaughter of June 4 but was interrogated because of her active parti
cipation in the student movement. She was unable to avoid the roadblocks and had no way to escape. In the middle of September, she climbed to the roof of a thirteen-story tower on her campus and jumped. Her suicide caused a sensation; the school, under considerable political pressure, was forced to slander her as having had mental health problems. In fact, she was a healthy, optimistic girl who, several days before she died, had mailed a note to her parents apologizing that she had not lived up to the love and care they had given her since her childhood.
52. Pu Changkui, male, 47, of the Korean ethnic minority, performer in the China National Ethnic Song and Dance Ensemble
Somewhere on the road between Xidan and Fuxingmen on the night of June 3, Pu was shot in the back left part of his head by a bullet that emerged from the right side of his neck. He died on the spot. His ashes were interred at Jinshan Cemetery without any grave marker or inscription.
53. Bian Zongxu, male, 40, manager at the Xinjiekou Mechanical and Electronic Products Supply and Sales Company in Beijing
On the morning of June 4, Bian was standing in front of a furniture shop in Xidan, when a stray bullet went through his head. He died there. His ashes were interred in the Taiziyu Public Cemetery, where a headstone was erected in his name. He left behind twins, a boy and a girl.
54. Tian Daomin, male, 22, student in the management department of the University of Science and Technology Beijing
Tian followed the advice of his school and stayed in his dormitory room all night to write his graduation thesis, but on the morning of June 4, he went out the main gate of his school and ran to Liubukou to see what was happening. A tank barging through the intersection flattened him.
55. He Jie, male, 23, graduate student at the Institute of Computing Technology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences
He, together with many classmates, went to Tiananmen on the evening of June 3 to support the student protest. He had just arrived at Nanchizi when he was shot and killed.
When he started high school at the age of fifteen, He impressed Tsinghua University so much that the usual rules were waived to admit him as an underage university student. Later he advanced rapidly, again contary to standard procedure, to become a master’s student at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he was called a boy wonder.
56. Song Xiaoming, male, 32, technician at Factory 283 of the Second Academy of China Aerospace in Beijing
On the evening of June 3, Song was on the sidewalk on the southwestern side of the Wukesong intersection in a big crowd, yelling slogans of protest that drew gunfire from soldiers on army trucks. Several people fell; Song was among those hit. The major artery in his thigh was severed and he bled heavily. He was taken to the emergency room of the nearby 301 Hospital (People’s Liberation Army General Hospital). A soldier who followed him gave orders to the hospital, “Don’t treat him! Don’t give him blood transfusions.” The physicians and nurses who stood ready to save him could only watch as he died before dawn. His mother could not bear what had happened to her son. Her kidneys failed and she soon followed him in death.
57. Liu Yansheng, male, 37, worker at the Beijing Household Electric Appliances Research Center
A stray bullet pierced Liu’s abdomen on the night of June 3 when he was at the Palace of Nationalities intersection on Chang’an Avenue. He was sent to the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications hospital but could not be saved. He bled to death.
58. Wen Jie, male, 26, master of arts from the Chinese literature department at Peking University; teacher at the Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology
Wen was arrested by the authorities after the June Fourth massacre because he had actively participated in the student movement. He suffered from acute abdominal pain while in prison and was diagnosed with late-stage intestinal cancer. He passed away shortly after being released on bail.
59. Li Huiquan, male, 35, journalist at China Metallurgy News in Beijing
Li was killed at dawn on June 4 while passing through the south side of Liubukou. No details are known. On June 11, following leads, his parents found his corpse at the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications hospital. It was headless.
60. Zhang Runing, male, 32, deputy director of the Russian-language service at China Radio International in Beijing
At about ten p.m. on the night of June 3, while walking from his home to his work unit, Zhang was shot as he crossed the street near the Muxidi Bridge. A dumdum bullet blew a hole in his abdomen. The crowd rushed him to the Fuxing University Hospital, where treatment proved ineffective. His remains were interred in the Futian Public Cemetery in the western suburb of Beijing.
61. Liu Fenggen, male, 40, worker at the drilling equipment factory of the Ministry of Geology
Liu’s sense of morality and justice led him to leave his home at around ten p.m. on the night of June 3 to rescue injured people in the Xidan area. Amid intense gunfire, he was struck three times—in his back, his arm, and his heart. He died at the Beijing Erlong Road Hospital.
62. Li Meng, female, 32, assistant researcher at the State Language and Writing Reform Commission
At dawn on June 4, Li found her husband, who had been seriously wounded by a dumdum bullet, in a pile of dead bodies. She took him to a hospital for emergency treatment; he survived. However, she suffered a mental breakdown because of all the bloodshed. In late 1990, Li went missing near her home. Her family looked for her for many years, but they didn’t see her alive or find her dead body. Because of this, the Ministry of Public Security issued a death notice and canceled her household registration.
63. Bi Yunhai, male, 22, worker at the street committee office at Guang’anmennei in Beijing
Bi left home on the night of June 3 and did not return. His family found his body the next day at Fuxing Hospital. His abdomen had been torn open by dumdum bullets. His ashes were interred at the Jinshan Public Cemetery in the western suburbs of Beijing.
64. Liu Hongtao, male, 18, student in the optical engineering department at the Beijing Institute of Technology
Liu was killed near the Cultural Palace of the Nationalities at one a.m. on June 4. His school retrieved his body from the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications hospital.
65. Zhou Xinming, male, 16, high school student in Beijing
Zhou was killed early in the morning of June 4. There is little personal information available about him. He is buried in the Jinshan Public Cemetery in the western suburbs of Beijing.
66. Wang Gang, male, 20, technician at the Beijing Coking Plant
On the afternoon of June 3, Wang left home to work the night shift. At seven a.m. the next morning, June 4, while he was buying breakfast in front of the main gate of the factory, a long line of army trucks screamed by at high speed. Hundreds of people waited on the side for a chance to cross. At that moment an army truck crashed into the crowd. People screamed and ran off in every direction. Three were unable to escape and were crushed to death. The young technician Wang was one of them.
Following the tragedy, the soldiers boarded the vehicle that followed and left. To vent their anger, the frustrated crowd shouted slogans and set the deserted bloodstained military truck on fire.
67. Zhang Lin, male, 37, Beijing resident, personal information unknown
Zhang was killed on June 4. No details are available. His remains were buried in Jinshan Public Cemetery in the western suburbs of Beijing.
68. Han Ziquan, male, 38, electrician at the University of Technology in Beijing
Han was accompanying a relative to work at a little after five a.m. on June 4. Less than half an hour later, he was shot in the neck and died near the Agricultural Exhibition Center.
69. Li Dezhi, male, 25, graduate student in the department of applied physics at the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Li was killed early on the morning of June 4. No details are available. His relatives retrieved his remains from Fuxing Hospital.
70. Zhou Yongqi, male, 32, head of t
he motor group at the Beijing Spring Plant
Zhou was shot near the Beijing Union building at a little past eleven p.m. on June 3. The bullet entered the left side of his chest and exited his right lung. He was sent to Fuxing Hospital for treatment, but it was too late.
71. Nan Huatong, male, 31, driver at the Beijing Wallboard Factory
Nan left home and took a walk down Chang’an Avenue to see what was happening in the square at around five a.m. on June 4. He never returned. Two days later his family recognized a photo of his remains at Peking Union Medical College Hospital. A dumdum bullet had entered his left rear shoulder blade and blown out his entire chest cavity.
72. He Anbin, male, 32, Beijing resident; personal information unknown
He was killed on June 4; no other details are known. His remains were interred at the Taiziyu Public Cemetery in suburban Beijing.
73. Zhong Guiqing, female, 31, Beijing resident; personal information unknown
Zhong was killed on June 4; no other details of her death are known. Her remains were interred at the Taiziyu Public Cemetery in suburban Beijing.
74. Mu Guilan, male, 48, finishing department worker at State Textile Plant No. 3 in Beijing
While going out to buy breakfast at around 6:30 a.m. on June 4, Mu walked by the Chaoyangmen overpass, where he ran into a long column of tanks and combat vehicles coming from Tong County at high speed. Flaunting their strength, they randomly took shots at pedestrians streaming by. A slug coming in from an angle struck Mu’s head, killing him instantly. After the scene calmed down, a pedestrian took his picture and mailed it to his family.
75. Xiong Zhiming, male, 20, student in the economics department of Beijing Normal University
According to several eyewitnesses, on the night of June 3, Xiong and a female classmate had taken refuge in an alley, but a group of soldiers pursued them and shot at them. Xiong turned around to help his classmate, who had been hit, when he, too, was shot. He was subject to a bloody and brutal attack that spared no part of his body. His classmates recognized him only by his clothing.