The massacre in which hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people died in Beijingon the night of June 3 and the early hours of June 4 1989 remains the most important and traumatic single event in modern Chinese history.
It was the moment the people’s army turned its guns on the people, shattering the legitimacy of the Communist party and ushering in an era of rapid capitalist-style reforms.
In the aftermath, the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union both collapsed, China’s education system was overhauled to inculcate greater nationalism and the Communist party established a new contract with its subjects: making a fortune is allowed but politics is off-limits.
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