Student Demonstrations Begin on April 15, 1989
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Seven weeks that changed China’s history begin with a memorial in Tiananmen Square.
On April 15th 1989, thousands of Chinese students gathered in Tiananmen Square to mark the sudden death of a liberal politician, Hu Yaobang. Former student Zhang Jian, then just 19 years old, recalls how he heard the students call for political change and democracy – and in the process, he himself became a central figure in the student movement.
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Student Demonstrations Begin on April 15, 1989
Clip: Episode 1 | 59sVideo has Closed Captions
On April 15th 1989, thousands of Chinese students gathered in Tiananmen Square to mark the sudden death of a liberal politician, Hu Yaobang. Former student Zhang Jian, then just 19 years old, recalls how he heard the students call for political change and democracy – and in the process, he himself became a central figure in the student movement.
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