“Tank Man”, June 5, 1989, Tiananmen Square protests and massacre. Beijing. most iconic images of 20th-century civil resistance. He didn’t shout. He didn’t run. He just stood there — in front of everything they said couldn’t be stopped. Just a man in the street with no name. saying no with his body. And the whole world heard it. They had tanks. He had a shopping bag. Who really looked stronger? We never learned his name. Nor what happened to him. They hoped we’d forget his legendary act We have