HIS284H5 Study Guide - Lin Biao, Li Shizhen, Shi Lang
Document Summary
On their way to the square, soldiers killed protesters in unknown numbers, and the crackdown became known as the tiananmen square massacre or the june 4 massacre. However, secret cables from the united states embassy in beijing, partly confirm the chinese government"s account of the early hours of june 4, 1989, which has always insisted that soldiers did not massacre demonstrators inside tiananmen square. Economic and political reforms were delayed or halted. In the late 1970s, the chinese leadership of deng xiaoping abandoned maoist-style planned collectivist economics, and embraced market-oriented reforms. Due to the rapid pace of change, by the late 1980s, grievances over inflation, limited career prospects for students, and corruption of the party elite were growing rapidly. Communist governments were also losing legitimacy around the world, particularly in eastern europe. In april 1989, triggered by the death of deposed.
