New at Reason: Steve Chapman on China After Tiananmen

June 4, 2009

On the morning of June 4, 1989 the Chinese government sent the army to crush the long-running student demonstration in the capital's Tiananmen Square, leaving hundreds dead. Since that day, however, China has undergone such a broad transformation that it is almost unrecognizable. The economy has opened up to markets, private property, and foreign trade. Living standards have soared. The government that once preached world revolution now provides credit to sustain American consumption. Chinese students go abroad to attend universities in bastions of capitalism. But as Steve Chapman writes, the bloody events of 1989 are still a live issue in China.

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