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The Cultural Revolution in China began in 1966 under Chairman Mao Zedong and didn’t end until 1976 with his death. During this time, people were beginning to shift from a communist society to a free market, capitalistic society and Zedong felt like this was going to ruin China. This video reviews changes that Zedong made in order to change the cultural attitudes of the Chinese people. First, he led a mass swim across a local river in order to prove his vigor and perseverance. From there, he utilized traditional Chinese art forms such as Chinese operas, in order to spread his communist teachings. Along with this, various testimonies from teachers, government officials and members of Zedong’s Red Guards recall their memories of Mao’s rule. The opinion of one of the Red Guards at the time: “If we follow Mao, we can’t go wrong.” This video also touches on the growing hatred for capitalistic leaders like President Liu Shaoqi, the historic Tiananmen Square Protests and the brutal rebellion that Chinese students led against many of their teachers.

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Beijing University students struggle to identify the iconic “Tank Man” image that captures an unidentified protester standing before a row of tanks the morning after the Tiananmen Square Massacre of 1989. Although the Tiananmen Square Protests were primarily led by Beijing University students, the muddled facts on this historical event due to government propaganda have made the true details of this protest unfamiliar to present-day students.

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Wu Dingfu and Song Xiuling lament the death of their son, Wu Guofeng, a 20-year-old Chinese student who was among the first victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre. On June 4, 1989, Wu Guofeng set out to document the student-led protests in Beijing with his camera, but instead was shot by the government’s advancing troops before being pierced through the stomach with a bayonet. According to Wu Dingfu, the Communist Party still denies accountability for the deaths of innocent citizens such as his son, even 25 years after the incident.

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See footage of the beginning of the protests in Tiananmen Square that began after 100,000 students gathered on April 21, 1989 to honor the death of Chinese reform leader Hu Yaobang.

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James Fallows of the Atlantic magazine talks about his personal experience on Tiananmen Square in Beijing on the eve of the 30th anniversary in 2009. On June 3–4 troops with assault rifles and tanks inflicted thousands of casualties on unarmed civilians to block their entrance into the square.

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Bao Pu witnessed the Tiananmen Square protests as a college senior. He discusses how students felt at the time and his own experience during the June massacre.

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Fang Zheng, a student during the Tiananmen Square protests, talks about losing his legs to a military tank as he exited the Square on June 4th. The protests were student-led demonstrations in Beijing which took place in the spring of 1989 and received broad support from local citizens and labor rights groups.

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Reporter Kate Aldie covered the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 and discusses her time in China as a Western journalist far from home.

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Workers' rights activist Han Dongfang was a prominent figure at the Tiananmen Square protests. He speaks about organizing worker involvement, the weeks leading up to the June 4th Massacre, and his subsequent arrest.

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