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Student protesters dancing at Tiananmen Square before the massacre, Beijing, China, 1989

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Student protesters dancing at Tiananmen Square before the massacre, Beijing, China, 1989

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HistoryPorn@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests_and_massacre

The protests lasted over a month; the massacre ended them in a flood of state-sponsored murder.

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Not a history book in the traditional sense, but Yu Hua’s China in ten words is great.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12884314-china-in-ten-words

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