2014: The Year in China (98 images)

A Chinese boy dressed in a communist uniform poses for a photo, in front of a banner of the communist party's ideal soldier Li Feng, at a site used by former helmsman Mao Zedong and other leaders to discuss policy and future strategies in the Yangjialing Revolution, in Yan'an, Shaanxi Province, on April 6, 2014. Yan'an was close to the endpoint of the Long March, and became the center of the Chinese Communist revolution led my Mao from the 1936 to 1948. Chinese communists celebrate the city as the birthplace of modern China and the cult of Mao. UPI/Stephen Shaver

A pro-democracy activist is pictured kneeling, with a grimace on his face, as a line of police officers secure the entrance the the Chief Executive's office in Hong Kong on October 2, 2014. UPI/Stephen Shaver

Young Chinese newlyweds pose for marriage photos dressed as Communist Revolutionary soldiers in Beihai, a coastal city in southern Guangxi Province, China on September 5, 2014. The Communist Party committees of three prestigious Chinese universities have vowed to uphold ideological controls over their students and faculty, in the latest curbs of free expression. UPI/Stephen Shaver

Pro-democracy activists and police scuffle, with the police pooling back, outside the Chief Executive's office in downtown Hong Kong on October 2, 2014. Pr0-democracy protesters in Hong Kong surrounded key government buildings in the territory as police warn they will "decisively uphold the law" UPI/Stephen Shaver