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Rare Photos Of China's 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests : The Picture Show : NPR

30 Years After Tiananmen Protests, 'The Fight Is Still Going On For China'

Top: Events planned by the student union of Peking University to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the May Fourth Movement of 1919. Bottom: A portrait of former Communist Party leader Hu Yaobang at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. The first protests broke out in the heart of the ancient imperial city of Beijing, set off by Hu's death in April 1989. Photo credit: Jian Liu / Humanitarian China / NPR

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30 Years After Tiananmen Protests, 'The Fight Is Still Going On For China'

Top: Students climbed up to get a better view of Tiananmen Square. Bottom: Professors support hunger strikers. Photo credit: Jian Liu / Humanitarian China / NPR

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While there was a jubilant atmosphere in Tiananmen Square, China's leaders planned a new offensive to end the demonstrations and unrest. Communist Party elders approved the decision to put down the "counter-revolutionary riot" by force.

In this image of Chinese students demonstrating at Tiananmen Square, student movement leader, Chai Ling, speaks to the crowd, Beijing, China, May 28, 1989. Photo credit: Chip HIRES/Gamma-Rapho Army Pics, Types Of Humor, One Word Art, R Image, The Future Is Now, R Dogs, Digital Text, R Memes, Your Teacher

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student movement leader, Chai Ling, speaks to the crowd, Beijing, China, 1989

In this image of Chinese students demonstrating at Tiananmen Square, student movement leader, Chai Ling, speaks to the crowd, Beijing, China, May 28, 1989. Photo credit: Chip HIRES/Gamma-Rapho

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A young unidentified couple pass the time in Tiananmen Square with a lively dance, 1989

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Chinese Democracy Movement, May/June 1989. Photo credit: Robert Croma — at Tiananmen Square, Beijing.

30 Years After Tiananmen Protests, 'The Fight Is Still Going On For China'

A crowd gathers to view the unveiling of the Goddess of Democracy statue, built by the protesters, on Tiananmen Square at the end of May 1989. The statue was destroyed less than a week later as the violent crackdowns began. Photo credit: Jian Liu / Humanitarian China / NPR

Student displays a banner with one of the slogans chanted by the crowd of some pouring into Tiananmen Square 22 April 1989 in Beijing in an attempt to participate in the funeral ceremony of. Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images

The 60 Most Powerful Photos Ever Taken That Perfectly Capture The Human Experience: A man protests in Tiananmen Square, Beijing Stuart Franklin

A protester in Tiananmen Square bares his chest, 1989. The photographer said of this picture, “If you work in news, one of the things you try to do as a still photographer is to try to crystallize the emotion, the tension, of the event you are trying to describe. The history of people tearing their shirts off and baring their chest at the enemy is something the Chinese did in the 1930s during the Japanese invasion.” Photo credit: Stuart Franklin / Magnum Photos