China in the 1980s had begun to embrace the wealth of a free market economy under prime minister Deng Xiaoping. Zhang relives the weeks prior to the June 4th crackdown. Zhang, a Beijing university professor who was among the first to research economics and sociology in the context of post-Cultural Revolution China, teamed with French journalist Adrien Gombeaud and artist Ameziane ( Cash Cowboys ) to pen a gripping account of an event that the China’s communist party has all but wiped from the history books. Tiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes is Lun Zhang’s first-hand account of that massacre. And while each has its own important place in the history books, it is still the iconic image of the lone protester standing against an armored column of tanks in 1989 that brings home the treacherous reaches of political autocracy. History repeats itself with each new generational shift in political power. The Watts Riots, 1965 the Kent State shooting, 1970 Rodney King, 1992 Hong Kong, 2019 and now the racial injustice protests that are occurring worldwide in light of the death of George Floyd. Tiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes Tiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes
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