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May 08

Sorting fact from fiction – Tiananmen revisited (Part 1)

Written by: MAJ | Filed under:Analysis, politics | Tags:,
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Foreword

The following piece is the first installment of a two-part essay that explores the tumultuous events that occurred in Beijing during the spring of 1989. The essay is divided into seven sections, the first three of which appear here in Part I.

The first half of the essay provides a brief outline of the economic and social setting from which the movement sprung, and questions the motivations and organisational characteristics of the student movement in general.
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