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Article: Tiananmen Square thirteen years after: the prospects for civil unrest in China.
- Article from:
- Asian Affairs: An American Review
- Article date:
- September 22, 2002
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Since the 1989 prodemocracy demonstrations in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, more than a decade has passed with no demonstrations that approach the 1989 movement in number of participants, the duration of the protests, or the number of cities in which demonstrations occurred simultaneously. The absence of protest in China may not be surprising, considering the brutality with which the 1989 movement was suppressed and the fates that its leaders met at the hands of the leadership of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Nevertheless, this is by far the longest period since the death of Mao Zedong that China has gone without a wave of demonstrations sweeping the nation.
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