What does the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown mean for China's youth 33 years later?
ABCUnlike other Beijing kids, Steven Chen rarely went to Tiananmen Square with his parents when he was little. "Getting to know the Tiananmen movement changed my life, which pushed me to get out of Truman's world and push down the ideological Berlin Wall," he said. Not all of China's younger generation share Mr Chen's desire to know about the erased history in Chinese textbooks, even including the descendants of the participants in the Tiananmen movement. Commemorating the Tiananmen Crackdown has become a part of Mr Xiao's daily life, but he said that merely relying on the "89 first generation" alone was "not enough". Even as one of the small number of young people in the know, Mr Chen said he would not encourage China's younger generation to learn about Tiananmen movement because "most young people can't change anything even if they know about it".
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Silence and heavy security in China and Hong Kong mark 35th anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown
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China tightens access to Tiananmen Square, 32 detained in Hong Kong on anniversary of 1989 protests
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China protests explode 'harmonious society myth': Tiananmen leader Wang Dan
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China’s online “tank” cake snafu raises Tiananmen questions
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US says China’s Tiananmen crackdown ‘won’t be forgotten’
Al Jazeera)
Tiananmen Square: Read an excerpt from Vijay Gokhale's account of violence that unfolded on 4 June 1989
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Vijay Gokhale Writes About the Death That Sparked Off Tiananmen Square Protests in China in 1989
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Graphic novel on the Tiananmen Massacre shows medium’s power to capture history
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