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Thousands of workers and students pictured in Tiananmen Square. Many of the people above would be dead soon after, victims of the PRC's effort to wipe out dissent. (People's World) On this day in 1989, thousands of Chinese student activists and workers gathered in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, in a massive display of civil disobedience. Site…
PRC player Zhuang Zedong, at right, in 1961. On his bus ride with Glenn Cowan, Zedong hesitated before speaking to the American as he remembered a lifetime of anti-Western propaganda. His curiosity got the better of him, however, and "the rest is history". (Timetoast) On this day in 1971, the American Ping-Pong team began a…
A crowd gathers in Manchuria, near North Korea, in 1978. They are fascinated to see Michael Arth, a white American photographer, in their village. During the Cultural Revolution, anything Western - from books to people - was hard to come by in the PRC. (Wikimedia Commons) On this day in 1978, the People's Republic of…
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