Oral migration histories of the 1989 democracy protests and Tiananmen Massacre
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Thirty years ago, a large series of student-led protests in Beijing and Shanghai, which had been growing since the mid-1980s, were suppressed when the government declared martial law and sent in armed troops to disperse the crowds.