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| Sunday, 7 January, 2001, 07:34 GMT TIANANMEN SQUARE Tiananmen Square rememberedWas Tiananmen Square a turning point for Chinese democracy? How has it changed dissidence in China? Ten years on, BBC News Online looks at what it all meant for China. Where are they now?BBC Chinese Affairs Analyst James Miles travelled to Boston and New York to find the Tiananmen leaders. Tiananmen: The birth of economic revolutionThe Tiananmen uprising marked a political setback for liberals in the Communist Party, but it did in the end provide the impetus for an economic revolution. Hi-tech Tiananmen still a long way off The information age should have propelled forward by the Internet. But as the tenth anniversary of Tiananmen Square approaches, it is clear that it has not been the watershed to Chinese dissidents that many had originally hoped. How the West was lost The demonstrations in Tiananmen Square in 1989 had all the ingredients of a major global television story. But what the Western media portrayed and what actually happened were not one in the same thing. The play's the thing The story behind Paul Godfrey's Radio 4 play about the uprising in Tiananmen Square 10 years ago. |
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