(Propaganda in the Western press had a lasting impact on China. For the Tiananmen Protest of 1989, the "reform and opening up" policies under Deng back-stepped when Western governments decided to scale back loans and FDI into China on the grounds the Chinese government were 'butchers.' The 'butcher' and 'massacre' narratives were concocted by the Western press to demonize the … [Read more...] about Let’s Talk About Tiananmen Square, 1989
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Sorting fact from fiction – Tiananmen revisited (Part 1)
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, … [Read more...] about Sorting fact from fiction – Tiananmen revisited (Part 1)