Song Binbin, who has died, probably aged 77, became a poster girl for the bloody Chinese “Cultural Revolution” when on August 18 1966 she was photographed overlooking an immense rally in Tiananmen ...
As a student leader of the militant Red Guards, she was blamed for a notorious 1966 killing at her Beijing high school. She denied taking part in the violence but apologized for failing to prevent it.
On the 50th anniversary of the upheaval, we look at images that one brave photographer hid from the government.