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COPYRIGHT 2001 Society for the Advancement of Education
THE TIANANMEN PAPERS BY ANDREW J. NATHAN AND PERRY LINK PUBLICAFFAIRS BOOKS 2001, 514 PAGES, $30.00
There are times when a photograph captures a universal truth in an existential moment. The horror of the Vietnam War, for instance, was fully realized in the picture of a naked young girl, scorched by napalm, running from a burning village, sheer terror written all over her face. Another was the video of a young Chinese man standing defiantly in front of an advancing tank on June 4, 1989, during the Tiananmen Square uprising. As the tank...
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