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4 - The Tiananmen Protests as History

from Part Two - The Tiananmen Protests

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2021

Jeremy Brown
Jeremy Brown
Affiliation:
Simon Fraser University, British Columbia
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Existing scholarly approaches, memoirs, and documentary films fail to capture the sense of hope experienced by many people in Beijing in 1989. Looking beyond students to include workers and ordinary Beijing residents provides a more comprehensive view of the Tiananmen protests of 1989.

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June Fourth
The Tiananmen Protests and Beijing Massacre of 1989
 , pp. 39 - 41
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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