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Tiananmen Square

Asia Society coverage of the 1989 massacre and its ongoing legacy

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"Tank Man" stops the advance of a column of tanks on June 5, 1989, in Beijing. (Jeff Widener/AP)

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Chinese security watch over Tiananmen Square prior to the welcoming ceremony for Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak in Beijing on June 3, 2009. (Goh Chai Hin/AFP/Getty Images)

Tiananmen's Legacy

Susan Shirk, Arthur Ross fellow, on Tiananmen Square 20 years later.

'Addicted to China'

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 /  New York

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Discussing the Tiananmen Square massacre, author Zha Jianying and Arthur Ross Director Orville Schell debate whether China could ever learn to address its own atrocities.
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How China Survived the End of History

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