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The 1976 Tiananmen incident or the April 5 Tiananmen incident (Chinese: 四五天安门事件) was a mass gathering and protest that took place on April 4–5, 1976, at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China.
The time period in China from the death of Mao Zedong in 1976 until the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre is often known as Dengist China.In September 1976, after CCP Chairman Mao Zedong's death, the People's Republic of China was left with no central authority figure, either symbolically or administratively. [1]
Among the most notable events that have occurred on Tiananmen Square were protests during the May Fourth Movement in 1919, the proclamation of the People's Republic of China by Mao Zedong on October 1, 1949, the Tiananmen Square protests in 1976 after the death of Zhou Enlai, and the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre after the death ...
China’s leaders have tried to erase all record of what happened in the Tiananmen Square massacre—but the country's legacy is contradictory.
The removal of the Pillar of Shame is the latest clampdown on commemorations of the Tiananmen Square massacre
The film explores the symbolic importance of Tiananmen Square and also looks at earlier political movements in China from the May Fourth Movement of 1919 to the Cultural Revolution of 1966–76 to the Tiananmen Incident of 1976. In so doing, the film considers the ways in which the political habits and attitudes that came to inform public life ...
1925 Tiananmen Square protest during the May Thirtieth Movement; 1926 Tiananmen demonstration, which became the March 18 Massacre; 1948 Tiananmen protests during the student movement against hunger, civil war and political suppression; 1976 Tiananmen Incident, a spontaneous protest of 4–5 April 1976; 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
Jeff Widener's iconic "Tank Man" photo on June 5, 1989, showing an unidentified man standing in front of a column of tanks after the Tiananmen Square crackdown in Beijing, China. - Jeff Widener/AP