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The History of China

6/4: UK Cable on Tiananmen Square Massacre

The History of China

Chris Stewart

History

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2019

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Even after 30 years... When you're ordered to forget, to remember becomes an act of defiance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is a high-risk investment

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and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong. A UK cable on the Tiananmen Square Massacre from June 5th, 1989.

0:45.0

History is as often as it is anything else,

0:50.0

about remembering the things that we might collectively wish to choose to forget,

0:54.4

or worse yet, remembering things that others, especially those in power, might wish us to forget.

0:59.7

It's one of the main jobs of historians and those who study history to do their best then to not allow that to happen

1:06.2

To ensure that even if history is ultimately written by the winner

1:09.2

That they're at least not allowed to burn all the books or bury the scholars in opposition.

1:14.0

30 years ago in 1989 between April 15th and June 4th, the capital city of China, Beijing,

1:20.7

was gripped by mass protests led by university students, factory workers, government

1:25.6

reformists, and regular everyday citizens who wanted substantive democratic change to their country's

1:30.2

government.

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