All sides of the square

By Robert Booth Robert Booth Robert Booth 2005-10-14T00:00:00

Crowd control: National Day celebration in Tiananmen Square, October 1, 1952, the same decade that author Wu Hung travelled in hunger to take part in its “displays of people”

Tiananmen Square was bound up with political power long before the massacre

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